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A Chapter in the Early Life of Shakespeare - Polesworth in Arden (Paperback) Loot Price: R767
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A Chapter in the Early Life of Shakespeare - Polesworth in Arden (Paperback): Arthur Gray

A Chapter in the Early Life of Shakespeare - Polesworth in Arden (Paperback)

Arthur Gray

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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In this charming and thought-provoking 1926 volume, Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1912 to 1940, explored the possibility that William Shakespeare spent his formative years at Polesworth Hall in the Forest of Arden, perhaps serving as a page boy. The Forest of Arden once stretched from just north of Stratford-upon-Avon to Tamworth, and covered what is now Birmingham; Polesworth, near Tamworth, was the home of Sir Henry Goodere and the centre of the famed 'Polesworth Circle'. This splendid focus of creative and cultural activity would have offered the young William exposure to the finest minds, a wonderful education and valuable introductions. Sir Henry, who evidently knew John Shakespeare in Stratford, was certainly patron of many young writers and musicians, including the eminent Elizabethan poet, Michael Drayton. If Gray is correct, Drayton would have been a contemporary of Shakespeare's at Polesworth.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Release date: July 2009
First published: July 2009
Authors: Arthur Gray
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-00557-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
Books > Biography > Literary
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LSN: 1-108-00557-8
Barcode: 9781108005579

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