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The Private Life of William Shakespeare (Hardcover)
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The Private Life of William Shakespeare (Hardcover)
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A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private
life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his
self-determination, and his relations with the members of his
family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare
tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The
book offers close readings of key documents associated with
Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres
from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of
evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical
fables. It also shows how the histories of some of Shakespeare's
neighbours illuminate aspects of his own life. Throughout, we
encounter a Shakespeare who consciously and with purpose designed
his life. Having witnessed the business failures of his merchant
father, he determined not to follow his father's model. His early
wedding freed him from craft training to pursue a literary career.
His wife's work, and probably the assistance of his parents and
brothers, enabled him to make the first of the property purchases
that grounded his life as a gentleman. With his will, he provided
for both his daughters in ways that were suitable to their
circumstances; Anne Shakespeare was already protected by dower
rights in the houses and lands he had acquired. His funerary
monument suggests that the man of 'small Latin and less Greek' in
fact had some experience of an Oxford education. Evidences are that
he commissioned the monument himself.
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