David M Bevington
2) Shakespeare
Author
Publisher
Blackwell Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the Bard is structured around the arc of human life - from infancy and childhood to adulthood, advancing age, and eventual death - with each stage in the life cycle acting as a lens through which the reader can view Shakespeares̕ major works.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare and biography is not a new biography of Shakespeare, but a study of what biographers have said about Shakespeare--from the first formal biography in the early 18th century by Nicholas Rowe, to others who have written recent biographical accounts. The emphasis is on what sorts of issues these biographers have found especially interesting, how contemplation of these issues has changed and grown, and the ways those changes reflect new cultural...