Shakespeare: The Poet in his World

Shakespeare: The Poet in his World
ISBN-10
1136558241
ISBN-13
9781136558245
Series
Shakespeare
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
2013-10-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
M. C. Bradbrook

Description

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.

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