Shakespeare

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The life of William Shakespeare, arguably
the greatest playwright — and the greatest
poet — in the world's literature, was almost
unknown until modern times. The facts were
there, but Shakespeare's remarkable
reticence, the fact that he never published a
single one of his plays, and the uncritical
adulation with which he came to be
regarded, encouraged a host of cranks with
extravagant theories — and the suggestion
that the plays were the work of another
writer, or writers. In his Introduction the
author, thoroughly versed in modern
Shakespearean scholarship, deals firmly with
all the silliness and makes it plain that Will
Shakespeare, the glover's son from Stratford,
was the author of the finest plays in the
English language and was, moreover, a quiet
man whose life is well documented.
Shakespeare lived in a heroic age — late
Elizabethan England. The age was also a
remarkably rich one for English drama: the
talents of Kyd, Marlowe and Jonson were
realising... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The life of William Shakespeare, arguably
the greatest playwright — and the greatest
poet — in the world's literature, was almost
unknown until modern times. The facts were
there, but Shakespeare's remarkable
reticence, the fact that he never published a
single one of his plays, and the uncritical
adulation with which he came to be
regarded, encouraged a host of cranks with
extravagant theories — and the suggestion
that the plays were the work of another
writer, or writers. In his Introduction the
author, thoroughly versed in modern
Shakespearean scholarship, deals firmly with
all the silliness and makes it plain that Will
Shakespeare, the glover's son from Stratford,
was the author of the finest plays in the
English language and was, moreover, a quiet
man whose life is well documented.
Shakespeare lived in a heroic age — late
Elizabethan England. The age was also a
remarkably rich one for English drama: the
talents of Kyd, Marlowe and Jonson were
realising the great potential of the theatre
and in this world Shakespeare found his true
voice. But the dramatic and poetic genius
which left us As You Like It, King Lear,
Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night,
Othello and the rest served a hard,
unrecognised apprenticeship: the distance
between Titus Andronicus and Hamlet was
not covered in a single bound.
Martin Fido gives us a rounded picture of
a man in his time. Country life, city life and
theatre life; Shakespeare was the product of
all three, and of a stirring historical period.
The Warwickshire town, the roaring London
of the century's end, the playhouse outside
the city and, most importantly, Shakespeare
himself, come to life in a beautifully
illustrated book. Vissza