S. Schoenbaum
William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1975. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Schoenbaum's definitive, document-based portrait of Shakespeare"s life, illustrated throughout with folding plates The first edition of this work.An in-depth chronological documentary presentation of Shakespeare"s life and works (1564–1616), exploring the little known information surviving about the most important playwright of all time.Illustrated with a frontispiece of the Flower portrait of Shakespeare, six folding plates, and illustrations throughout with reproductions of original documents: parish records, portraits, artifacts, legal papers, title pages, wills, and more. Collated, complete.By Samuel Schoenbaum is a noted 20th century Shakespearean scholar, former director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, who uncovered previously unrecorded manuscripts and biographical records pertaining to Shakespeare. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. One or two faint handling marks to boards. Slight fading to spine and extremities. Small loss to cloth at tail of spine. Small ink inscription to front free endpaper. Two small strips of tape to rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Previous owner's and library stamps to title page. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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Keywords: Shakespeare Biography Illustrated History of Shakespeare Biography History of Literature Documentary Various