William Shakespeare A Compact Documentary Life,9780195051612

William Shakespeare A Compact Documentary Life

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780195051612
ISBN10: 0195051610
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1987-05-14
Publisher(s): OXFORD UNIV PR
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Summary

Covering four hundred years of Shakespeare scholarship, S. Schoenbaum's William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life was greeted as "a master-piece" by The New York Review of Books and called "our best life of Shakespeare" by the Guardian (Manchester). This compact edition makes the resources of the world's greatest Shakespeare collections accessible to all readers who have been unable to consult the magnificent original volume. The new book contains the full text, refined and amplified, of the parent volume, and fifty of the documents reproduced in smaller format. Schoenbaum has incorporated new material into his narrative, including an eyewitness account, in harrowing detail, of a murder that may have occurred in New Place, the great house Shakespeare was to buy in Stratford in 1597. Book jacket.

Author Biography


S. Schoenbaum, Director of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, is the author of Shakespeare's Lives and Shakespeare: The Globe and the World.

Table of Contents

Stratford Town and Stratford Church
3(11)
The Shakespeares: From Snitterfield to Stratford
14(9)
Offspring
23(7)
Rise and Fall
30(15)
John Shakespeare's Spiritual Testament
45(10)
Faith and Knowledge
55(18)
Early Employment and Marriage
73(22)
The Lost Years
95(23)
London and the Theatres
118(25)
The Upstart Crow
143(16)
Plays, Plague, and a Patron
159(25)
The Lord Chamberlain's Man
184(36)
A Gentleman of Means
220(29)
His Majesty's Servant
249(29)
Stratford Again
278(42)
Postscript 320(9)
Notes 329(30)
Acknowledgments of Facsimiles 359(2)
Index 361

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