Discover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of
William Shakespeare The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare
delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William
Shakespeare, offering readers a biography that brings to the
foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It
also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends,
colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the
stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually
have about the man himself. The book is written using scholarly
citations and references, but with an approachable style suitable
for readers with little or no background knowledge of Shakespeare
or the era in which he lived. The Life of the Author: William
Shakespeare asks provocative questions about the playwright-poet's
preoccupation with gender roles and sexuality, and explores why it
is so challenging to ascertain his political and religious
allegiances. Conservative or radical? Misogynist or proto-feminist?
A lover of men or women or both? Patriot or xenophobe? This
introduction to Shakespeare's life and works offers no simple
answers, but recognizes a man intensely responsive to the world
around him, a playwright willing and able to collaborate with
others and able to collaborate with others, and, of course, his
exceptional, perhaps unique, contribution to literature in English.
The book covers the entirety of William Shakespeare's life
(1564-1616), taking him from his childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon
to his success in the theatre world of London and then back to his
home town and comfortable retirement. The Life of the Author:
William Shakespeare sets his achievement as a writer within the
dangerous, vibrant cultural world that was Elizabethan and Jacobean
England, revealing a writer's life of frequent collaboration,
occasional crisis, but always of profound creativity. Perfect for
undergraduate students in Literature, Drama, Theatre Studies,
History, and Cultural Studies courses, The Life of the Author:
William Shakespeare will also earn a place in the libraries of
students interested in Gender Studies and Creative Writing.
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