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Genre/Form: | Biography Electronic books Biographies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Honan, Park. Shakespeare. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (DLC) 98022114 (OCoLC)39217395 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Park Honan |
ISBN: | 9780199774753 0199774757 0191590991 9780191590993 |
OCLC Number: | 779180231 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Birth -- Mother of the child -- John Shakespeare's fortunes -- To grammar school -- Opportunity and need -- Love and early marriage -- To London: and the amphitheatre players -- Attitudes -- City in September -- Patron, poems, and company work -- Servant of the Lord Chamberlain -- New place and the country -- South of Julius Caesar's Tower -- Hamlet's questions -- King's servants -- Tragic sublime -- Tales and tempests -- Gentleman's choices. |
Responsibility: | Park Honan. |
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a meticulously researched ... authoritative biography ... it is lucid, enjoyable and reliable in excluding (exuding?) colourful, imaginative reconstructions and elaborate psychological theories which strain credulity and are less exciting than newly found factual truth. * Patrick Richards, Day by Day, 14/12/00. * This engrossing life, using a wealth of new evidence to illustrate personal experiences and artistic development of the greatest English writer, is incomparably vivid and credible ... I know no biography of Shakespeare to rival this one. * Patrick Richards, Day by Day, 14/12/00. * In this complete, accurate, and up-to-date narrative of Shakespeare's life, Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to cast new light on Shakespeare's development as an artist, dramatically changing our perceptions of the actor, poet and playwright. * Publishing News * Honan evokes the Bard's contemporary social context to enable a better understanding of his personal relationships, as well as his writing. - The Guardian (In the EDITOR) - 7/5/99 Honan has gone through town and church registers with a keen eye and a happy wit. An always interesting book. - Peter Ackroyd - The Times 22/10/99 His biography of Shakespeare is clearly the product of a lifelong engagement with his works and of a thorough study of the documentary evidence and the life of the time. Others have told the story of Shakespeare's life, but none of them will the fullness of detail, the scholarship, the literary skill and the sheer readability that Honan brings to his task. This is now the best available life of Shakespeare. - The Observer - 18/10/98 An impressive new biography. Honan's particular flair is for the vivid dramatic reconstruction of small incidences recorded only fleetingly by conteporary documents. A highly readable book which is more reliable about more aspects of Shakespeare's life and career than any other currently on the market. - LRB 7th January 1999 documented facts, expertly marshalled * Daily Telegraph, 13/5/00 * Read more...


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