Lois Potter

The Life of William Shakespeare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eine faszinierende, breit gefächerte Untersuchung von Shakespeares Leben und Werk. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf oft vernachlässigten literarischen und historischen Zusammenhängen und darauf, wie andere Autoren, Schauspieler und Weggefährten Shakespeares Schaffen beeinflusst haben.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A118281520
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781118281529
• ISBN-10: 1118281527
• Artikelnr.: 34754579

Autorenporträt

Lois Potter recently retired as Ned B. Allen Chair at the University of Delaware. She has also taught at the Universities of Aberdeen, Leicester, and Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and at Tsuda College, Tokyo. Her publications include Twelfth Night: Text and Performance (1986), the Arden edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen (1997, 2001), and Shakespeare in Performance: Othello (2002). She is also the editor of two volumes in the Revels History of Drama in English series (1981 and 1984), and has been a frequent reviewer of plays for the Times Literary Supplement, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Bulletin.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations The Shakespeare Family Tree 1. "Born into the World": 1564
1571 2. "Nemo Sibi Nascitur": 1571
1578 3. "Hic et Ubique": 1578
1588 4. "This Man's Art and That Man's Scope": 1588
1592 5. "Tiger's Hearts": 1592
1593 6. "The Dangerous Year": 1593
1594 7. "Our Usual Manager of Mirth": 1594
1595 8. "The Strong'st and Surest Way to Get": 1595
1596 9. "When Love Speaks": 1595
1596 10. "You Had a Father, Let Your Son Say So": 1596
1598 11. "Unworthy Scaffold": 1598
1599 12. "These Words Are Not Mine": 1599
1601 13. "Looking Before and After": 1600
1603 14. "This Most Balmy Time": 1603
1605 15. "Past the Size of Dreaming": 1606
1609 16. "Like an Old Tale": 1609
1611 17. "The Second Burden": 1612
1616 18. "In the Mouths of Men": 1616 and After Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"Two of the Mighty dead have been brought back to life in exemplary fashion: Shakespeare in Lois Potter's The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography, which very cleverly uses expert theatre-knowledge as a way of making her enigmatic subject seem plausibly substantial; and Keats in Nicholas Roe's John Keats: A New Life, which puts the poet properly in his place." (The Guardian, 24 November 2012)

"This study will have wide appeal to readers who wish to expand their appreciation of the works of William Shakespeare. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." (Choice, 1 November 2012)

"A richly suggestive, undogmatic book in which Lois Potter ranges across the entire canon and the period that helped produce it." (Around the Globe, 1 October 2012)

"Lois Potter's Life of William Shakespeare, ranks with the most distinguished examples of its kind ... Her achievement lies in her catholicity, her simultaneous commitment to matters personal, historical, theatrical, literary, cultural. She exhibits an absolute command of the available facts, a lifetime's acquaintance with the works gained in teaching and playgoing, an unparalleled familiarity with theatrical history from 1567 to the present, and a talent for connecting the fictional and the actual." (Times Literary Supplement, 10 August 2012)