Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

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University Press of Kentucky, 17.10.2014 - 248 Seiten

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare—or any poet of the time—ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating.

 

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Introduction
1
The Poet and His Muse
11
The Strategies of Front Matter
48
Patronage in Shakespeare
89
The Poets Life in Shakespeares Courts
123
The Young Man and the Poets Life
161
Statues and Breathers
196
Exemplary Front Matter
204
Notes
207
Index
229
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Gary Schmidgall, professor of English at Hunter College, is the author of numerous books including Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919.

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