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ADAMS, JOSEPH QUINCY A Life of William Shakespeare
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Minimal pencil notes in text, minor shelf and cover edge wear, wear to spine edges with some minor fraying, pages heavily toned. "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include at least 38 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, and at 18 married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children, Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, Shakespeare moved to London, where he was an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men (later known as the King's Men), with which he found financial success. Shakespeare appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later at the age of 52. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1612. He is one of the few playwrights of his time considered to have excelled in both tragedy and comedy, and many of his dramas, including Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear, are ranked among the greatest plays of Western literature. His works have been performed all over the world and translated into every major living language. Shakespeare greatly influenced subsequent theatre and literature through his innovative use of plot, language, and genre, and even influenced the English language itself. Many of his quotations and neologisms have passed into everyday usage. Among literary and dramatic critics, Shakespeare is probably best known for creating completely-realised characters capable of expressing the wide range of human experience at a time when dramatic characters were either flat or merely archetypes. Thus even villains such as Macbeth and Shylock can command the audience's understanding -- if not sympathy -- because they are portrayed as recognizably flawed human beings, not monsters. Biographers know very little about Shakespeare's private life, especially the seven-year period between 1585 and 1592 known as his "lost years". This dearth of biographical information has led to considerable speculation about the man, including questions about his sexuality and religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were actually written by others."---Wikipedia CONTENTS: Ancestry; parentage; boyhood and early environment; Schooling; Apprenticeship and Marriage; departure form Stratford; the rise of professionalism in the drama; Arrivan in London, and Labors for the Pembroke's Company; period of Non framatic Composition; With the Lord Chanberlain's company; Londong Residences and Actor friends; labors for the Chamberlain's Men; Rise in Fame and in Social Dignity; the Erection of New Playhouses; the Globe; Joyous Comedies; Hamlet; the Essex Rebellion, and the War of the Theatres; the Passionate Pilgrim and loves Martyr; Worcester's Men; The coming of James; Personal Affairs; Dramatic Labors; tragi-comedy and romance; Last Labors for the King's men; retirement to stratford; death and burial; descendants; the making of the Playhouse Manuscripts; the printing of the wuartos; the attempted collection of 1619; the first folio.
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