Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life (Paperback, Reissue)

First time in paperback This major biography of Shakespeare was first published in 2001 to great critical acclaim. It remains highly regarded and much cited by critics and scholars. Its author, Katherine Duncan Jones was an advisor to William Boyd for his film about Shakespeare's life (A Waste of Shame). The book shows Shakespeare as a man among men and a writer among writers. He lives in a congested city, where he encounters disease, debt and cut-throat competition. His brilliance often makes him the object of envy and malice rather than adulation. He is a shrewd purchaser of property and shows no inclination to divert any of his wealth to charitable or altruistic ends. He appears to be more interested in relationships with well-born young men than with women. Duncan Jones takes us through the complexities of life in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England in a compelling well-told story. For this paperback reissue, the author has written a new Preface, detailing some of the recent debates about Shakespeare's biography and identity. Katherine Duncan-Jones has published over forty articles on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. Her biography "Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet" appeared in 1991, and her edition of "Shakespeare's Sonnets" was published by Arden in 1997. She is a Tutorial Fellow in English at Somerville College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. "Engrossing...meticulously fleshes out her portrait of Shakespeare as social climber, as homosexual misogynist-cum-womanizer, and as skinflint...Her account of Shakespeare's hypothetical entry into the theatrical profession is a tour de force of biographical reconstruction...Striking and original elements... Katherine Duncan-Jones shines light into dark corners and brings skeletons out of the closet. Her courageous biography is partisan, idiosyncratic, and unforgettable. Anyone seriously interested in Shakespeare should read it.--"Shakespeare Quarterly"

General

Imprint:	The Arden Shakespeare
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Arden Shakespeare
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	Katherine Duncan-Jones
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-1-4081-2508-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	1-4081-2508-0
Barcode:	9781408125083

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