life of William Shakespeare.

Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee Download PDF EPUB FB2

Like Schoenbaum's William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (Oxford Paperbacks), it steers clear of fanciful suggestions (Shakespeare's possible employment in Lancashire in the late s, is given particularly short shrift, for example).

The book deals with the facts as they are known, and then discusses legends and rumours from a strictly evidence-based viewpoint/5(10). The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing/5.

At the age of 18, William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, a woman six years his senior and already pregnant. These facts, among a smattering of additional information, are really all that’s known about the early life of English literature’s most celebrated by: 2.

There surely are thousands of books about William Shakespeare. Just as surely, this must be one of the better ones for the general reader (as opposed to the Ph.D.

in English literature). James Shapiro focuses on one year in Shakespeare's life -- Cited by: William Shakespeare, English dramatist, poet, and actor considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. No writer’s living reputation can compare to that of Shakespeare, whose notable plays included the tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello.

He was also known for his sonnets. Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Life of William Shakespeare.

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