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The Real Shakespeare - Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594 (Paperback, Reissue): Eric Sams The Real Shakespeare - Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594 (Paperback, Reissue)
Eric Sams
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Gerd Cure - Everything You Need To Know About Gerd Cure (Paperback): Eric Sam Gerd Cure - Everything You Need To Know About Gerd Cure (Paperback)
Eric Sam
R183 Discovery Miles 1 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Songs of Hugo Wolf (Hardcover): Eric Sams The Songs of Hugo Wolf (Hardcover)
Eric Sams
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Songs of Hugo Wolf (Paperback): Eric Sams The Songs of Hugo Wolf (Paperback)
Eric Sams
R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Songs of Johannes Brahms (Paperback): Eric Sams The Songs of Johannes Brahms (Paperback)
Eric Sams
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this highly anticipated book, Eric Sams examines each of Johannes Brahms's 213 songs, translates the texts into English, and provides original commentary on points of musicology and literary detail. Sams here reveals for the first time the full extent of the poetry, fantasy, and humor of the composer's work. After an introduction to Brahms as a songwriter and to his use of motifs, the book offers a complete song-by-song analysis and will serve as an invaluable companion for students, performers, and listeners alike. Sams demonstrates how Brahms built a verbal expressiveness from his unsurpassed devotion to musicianship and musicology. Songs were among Brahms's first and last works, and much of his music is associated with words, whether overt texts or covert allusions. Essential to the composer's method of songwriting was a harmony between musical form and poetic text. Sams underscores the use of motifs at the core of Brahms's song-music. He argues that it is not so much with words that Brahms sings to us, but with the very music itself. Brahms became the innovator of an all-pervasive new language in which musical form became a medium for poetic dialogue.

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