Shakespeare and the Poet's Life.

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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schmidgall, Gary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Authorship.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Contemporaries.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Relations with literary patrons.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
1500-1599
Authors and patrons > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Poets, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography.
Literary patrons > Great Britain.
Authors and patrons in literature.
Poets in literature.
Écrivains et mécènes > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Mécènes de la littérature > Grande-Bretagne.
Écrivains et mécènes dans la littérature.
Poètes dans la littérature.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Authors and patrons
Authors and patrons in literature
Authorship
Contemporaries
Courts and courtiers
Literary patrons
Literature and society
Poets, English > Early modern > Biography
Poets in literature
Relations with literary patrons
Great Britain > Court and courtiers > History > 16th century.
England
Great Britain
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Coyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations; Introduction; 1 ""Thou Thing Most Abhorred"": The Poet and His Muse; 2 ""Dedicated Words"": The Strategies of Front Matter; 3 Poet's Labors Lost: Patronage in Shakespeare; 4 ""Chameleon Muse"": The Poets Life in Shakespeares Courts; 5 ""Fearful Meditation"": The Young Man and the Poets Life; Epilogue: Statues and Breathers; Appendix: Exemplary Front Matter; Notes; Index.

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