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The Real Shakespeare - Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594 (Paperback, Reissue)
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The Real Shakespeare - Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594 (Paperback, Reissue)
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Loot Price R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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One of the central assumptions of established Shakespeare
scholarship has been that the playwright produced flawless work
needing no revision-that if a text was inferior in style, it could
be assumed that Shakespeare did not write it. Thus Shakespeare had
nothing to do with the "bad" quartos; these were instead the work
of "memorial reconstruction," in which actors remembered and
subsequently wrote down entire texts composed by others. In this
controversial book, Eric Sams suggests that there is no evidence to
substantiate memorial reconstruction, that Shakespeare very
probably revised his plays repeatedly, and that he may therefore be
the author of the "bad" quartos and of other works not attributed
to him. Drawing on testimony from Shakespeare's contemporaries and
on documents concerning his family, Sams presents a vivid
biographical picture of the first thirty years of the playwright's
life. He establishes that Shakespeare's origins were humble: his
parents were illiterate Catholics and the family trade was farming
and animal husbandry. During this period Shakespeare acquired some
knowledge of legal practice, served as the legal hand in an
attorney's office, married, and moved to London to join a theatre
company and to establish a career as an actor and playwright. Sams
traces the impact of Shakespeare's upbringing in the plays
themselves-not only those of the Folio edition but others,
including the "bad" quartos. He finds that these texts are filled
with figurative language that would have been gleaned from a rural
upbringing and legal experience. Using detailed textual analysis,
he argues compellingly that during these early "lost" years,
Shakespeare was in fact writing first versions of his later great
works.
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