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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; Ovid; Ovid; William Shakespeare |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick Cheney |
ISBN: | 0521839238 9780521839235 |
OCLC Number: | 1169865938 |
Description: | xv, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on texts; Proem: Shakespeare's 'Plaies and Poems'; Part I. The Imprint of Shakespearean Authorship: Prelude: Shakespeare, Cervantes, Petrarch; 1. The sixteenth-century poet-playwright; 2. Francis Meres, the Ovidian poet-playwright, and Shakespeare criticism; Part II. 1593-1594: The Print Author Presents Himself: Play Scene: 'Two Gentlemen' to 'Richard III'; 3. Authorship and acting: plotting Venus and Adonis along the Virgilian path; 4. Publishing the show: The Rape of Lucrece as Lucanian counter-epic of empire; Part III. 1599-1601: The Author Brought Into Print: Play Scene: 'Love's Labor's Lost' to 'Troilus and Cressida'; 5. 'Tales ... coined': 'W. Shakespeare' in Jaggard's The Passionate Pilgrim; 6. 'Threne' and 'scene': the author's relics of immortality in 'The Phoenix and Turtle'; Part IV. 1609: Imprinting the Question of Authorship: Play Scene: 'Measure for Measure' to 'Coriolanus'; 7. 'O, let my books be ... dumb presagers': poetry and theatre in the sonnets; 8. 'Deep-brain'd sonnets' and 'tragic shows': Shakespeare's late Ovidian art in A Lover's Complaint; Epilogue. Ariel and Autolycus: Shakespeare's counter-laureate authorship; Works cited; Index. |
Responsibility: | Patrick Cheney. |
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'Cheney's impressive familiarity with the wide range of English Renaissance poetry and drama as well as an immense body of scholarship and criticism commands unreserved respect and makes Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright a particularly important and stimulating contribution to a more complete, less fragmented evaluation of Shakespeare's literary status.' Archiv Read more...
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- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Poetic works.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Contemporaries.
- Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Influence.
- Authorship -- History -- 16th century.
- English poetry -- Roman influences.
- Renaissance -- England.
- Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.
- Authorship.
- Contemporaries.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Literature.
- Renaissance.
- England.