Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography - Rilegato

Weis, Rene

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ISBN 10: 0719564182 ISBN 13: 9780719564185

Casa editrice: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

Intimacies with Marlowe, entanglements in London with the mysterious dark lady, the probable fathering of an illegitimate son -- the mysteries of Shakespeare's personal life have proven tantalisingly obscure. In Shakespeare Revealed, acclaimed authority, Rene Weis, brings the man and his milieu to the fore in a compelling reassessment. Breaking with tradition, he reveals how the works themselves contain a rich seam of clues about Shakespeare's life, from his heretical dalliances with Catholicism to his grief at the death of his son Hamnet. If there is a code in his writing, Shakespeare always intended it to be broken. This striking re-reading is consolidated by scrupulous archival research. Through reconstruction of records of the age, Rene Weis builds a colourful picture of Shakespeare's daily life: the bustling market town of Stratford, the spellbinding forests of Warwickshire, the pell-mell of London's theatres. Above all he reanimates Shakespeare's social scene: Stratford's family affairs and neighbourly disputes and a dangerous London scene, peopled with shady spies, informers and torturers.

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Praise for The Yellow Cross: (.)

'A story with a powerful modern resonance, a story of treachery, betrayal, passion, greed, and heroism ... My book of the year' (Christopher Bland, Sunday Telegraph)

'Painstaking and passionate' (The Times)

'For the reader interested in the texture of life in the medieval world ... there can be few better guides than this beautiful book, which lets an almost forgotten people, even through the filter of time, speak once again for themselves' (Washington Post)

'Intriguing stuff' (The Bookseller)

L'autore:

Rene Weis is a world authority on Shakespeare. He has edited King Lear `Longman` and Henry IV Part 2 `Oxford` and has published widely on Shakespeare. He is currently working on a new edition of Romeo and Juliet for the Arden Shakespeare. He lives in London and teaches at UCL. He has previously written two critically acclaimed biographies: Criminal Justice and The Yellow Cross.

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• Editore: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0719564182
• ISBN 13: 9780719564185
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 464