Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth’s reign. Originally published in 1933 and republished in 1958, this great work is an imagining, in plain narrative, of the life of Shakespeare backed with evidence of the history of the stage. Whatever wider significances modern critics distill from Shakespeare’s plays, it remains an elementary fact that he wrote plays to interest and entertain his contemporaries and this book takes a look at the immediate interests of his audience and how his work responded to them.
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No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt
$4,050 -
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Context: Magic, Madness and Mayhem
$1,123 -
The Shakespeare Encyclopedia: Life, Works, World, and Legacy
$22,275 -
Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation Among Disciplines and Professions
$945 -
Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance
$4,230 -
Shakespeare Between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics
$3,600 -
Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
$1,663 -
Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader
$4,860 -
Shakespeare’s Creative Legacies: Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers
$4,860 -
Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies
$6,300 -
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays
$840 -
Shakespeare’s Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but True Tales from 400 Years of Shakespearean Theatre
$488 -
Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
$945 -
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays
$1,800 -
Shakespearean Criticism: Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Eva
$18,765 -
Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture: Appropriation and Inversion
$6,300 -
Juliet’s Answer: One Man’s Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak
$560 -
Shakespeare, Court Dramatist
$2,475 -
The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition
$3,598 -
Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare’s Time
$2,698