Shakespeare: The Poet in His World

ISBN-13: 9780415758932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 284 str.

M. C. Bradbrook

Opis

First published in 1978. In this study, Shakespeare's own life story and the development of English theatrical history are placed in the wider context of Elizabethan and Jacobean times, but the works themselves are the final objective of this 'applied biography'. The main contention of the book is that Shakespeare's life was the lure of the stage itself which inspired him to transform what everyday life provided into the worlds of Hamlet, King Lear and Prospero.

Spis treści

The world he found 1. The cradle of security 2. A challenge to fortune 3. The upstart crow 4. The poet of the plague years The world he made 5. The poet of love 6. The Lord Chamberlain's Men 7. Enter, fighting, at several doors 8. Hamlet, revenge! 9. 'His Majesty's poor players' 10. The Kingdom of fools The world and the dream 11. The dream of ancient lands 12. The end of the revels

O autorze

M. C. Bradbrook