Shakespeare and Biography by Bevington, David

Shakespeare and Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199586479)

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Shakespeare and Biography by Bevington, David

Shakespeare and Biography

$31.99
Shakespeare and Biography by Bevington, David

Shakespeare and Biography

$31.99
Format: Paperback
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Shakespeare and Biography is not a new biography of Shakespeare. Instead, it is a study of what biographers have said about Shakespeare, from the first formal biography in the early 18th century by Nicholas Rowe to Stephen Greenblatt, James Shapiro, Jonathan Bate, Germaine Greer, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Park Honan, Rene Weis, and others who have written recent biographical accounts of England's greatest writer. The emphasis is on what sorts of issues these biographers have found especially interesting in relation to sex and gender, politics, religion, pessimism, misanthropy, jealousy, aging, family relationships, the end of a career, the end of life. How has Shakespeare's contemplation of these issues changed and grown, and in what ways do those changes reflect new cultural developments in our world as it continues to reinterpret Shakespeare?

Author: David Bevington
ISBN-10: 0199586470
ISBN-13: 9780199586479
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2010
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.40w x 0.43d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2011
By David Bevington
By David Bevington
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David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. He has published widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His recent books include The Seven Ages of Human Experience (Blackwell Publishing, 2005), co-authored with Anne Marie Welsh and Michael L. Greenwald, Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen (Pearson Longman, 2006), This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare's Plays in Production, Then and Now (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Shakespeare's Ideas (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, the Revels Plays, and of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. He is also senior editor of the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama, 2002.

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