The Life of the Author

William Shakespeare

Anna Beer (Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK)

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English

Blackwell Publishing
27 April 2021

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literature: history & criticism

Series: The Life of the Author

Discover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William Shakespeare

The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering readers a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself.

The book is written using scholarly citations and references, but with an approachable style suitable for readers with little or no background knowledge of Shakespeare or the era in which he lived. The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare asks provocative questions about the playwright-poet’s preoccupation with gender roles and sexuality, and explores why it is so challenging to ascertain his political and religious allegiances. Conservative or radical? Misogynist or proto-feminist? A lover of men or women or both? Patriot or xenophobe? This introduction to Shakespeare’s life and works offers no simple answers, but recognizes a man intensely responsive to the world around him, a playwright willing and able to collaborate with others and able to collaborate with others, and, of course, his exceptional, perhaps unique, contribution to literature in English.

The book covers the entirety of William Shakespeare’s life (1564-1616), taking him from his childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon to his success in the theatre world of London and then back to his home town and comfortable retirement. The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare sets his achievement as a writer within the dangerous, vibrant cultural world that was Elizabethan and Jacobean England, revealing a writer’s life of frequent collaboration, occasional crisis, but always of profound creativity.

Perfect for undergraduate students in Literature, Drama, Theatre Studies, History, and Cultural Studies courses, The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare will also earn a place in the libraries of students interested in Gender Studies and Creative Writing.

By: Anna Beer (Kellogg College University of Oxford UK)
Imprint: Blackwell Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781119605218
ISBN 10: 1119605210
Series: The Life of the Author
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 27 April 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments vi Prologue viii Chapter One 1 Chapter Two 14 Chapter Three 31 Chapter Four 49 Chapter Five 69 Chapter Six 87 Chapter Seven 106 Chapter Eight 129 Notes 149 References 160 Index 170

Anna Beer is a cross-disciplinary author and researcher with a focus on literature, history, music, and creative writing. She is the author of several biographies, including John Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot and Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music