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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life.

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.
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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.