The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing.
Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewer
Pays particular attention to Shakespeare's theatrical contemporaries and the ways in which they influenced his writing
Offers an intriguing account of the life and work of the great poet-dramatist structured around the idea of memory
Explores often neglected literary and historical contexts that illuminate Shakespeare's life and works
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| Preface and Acknowledgments |
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| The Shakespeare Family Tree |
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1 "Born into the World": 1564-1571 |
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2 "Nemo Sibi Nascitur": 1571-1578 |
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3 "Hic et Ubique": 1578-1588 |
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4 "This Man's Art and That Man's Scope": 1588-1592 |
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5 "Tigers' Hearts": 1592-1593 |
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6 "The Dangerous Year": 1593-1594 |
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7 "Our Usual Manager of Mirth": 1594-1595 |
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8 "The Strong'st and Surest Way to Get": Histories, 1595-1596 |
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9 "When Love Speaks": Tragedy and Comedy, 1595-1596 |
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10 "You Had a Father; Let Your Son Say So": 1596-1598 |
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11 "Unworthy Scaffold": 1598-1599 |
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12 "These Words Are Not Mine": 1599-1601 |
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13 "Looking Before and After": 1600-1603 |
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14 "This Most Balmy Time": 1603-1605 |
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15 "Past the Size of Dreaming": 1606-1609 |
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16 "Like an Old Tale": 1609-1611 |
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17 "The Second Burden": 1612-1616 |
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18 "In the Mouths of Men": 1616 and After |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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LOIS POTTER recently retired as Ned B. Allen Chair at the University of Delaware. She has also taught at the Universities of Aberdeen, Leicester, and Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and at Tsuda College, Tokyo. Her publications include Twelfth Night: Text and Performance (1986), the Arden edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen (1997, 2001), and Shakespeare in Performance: Othello (2002). She is also the editor of two volumes in the Revels History of Drama in English series (1981 and 1984), and has been a frequent reviewer of plays for the Times Literary Supplement, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Bulletin.
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