Shakespeare's Professional Career (Canto original series) - Softcover

Thomson, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521466555 ISBN 13: 9780521466554

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Shakespeare was a supremely successful accommodator. The story of his career as actor and playwright, which this book tells, shows the accommodation of his remarkable talents to the circumstances of his time: the social, political and professional life of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Peter Thomson describes the development of this talent into genius. He also depicts a background of theatrical rivalry, opportunism, service to noble patrons, and the sometimes involuntary involvement in political intrigue.

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."..will long serve as an excellent introduction to the Elizabethan stage." Magill's Literary Annual "The book is an interesting amalgam of well-known facts mixed with matters perhaps not so familiar." Graham C. Adams, Essays in Theatre ."..an attractive recapitulation of information and speculation about Shakespeare with the intended focus being his professional life as an actor and writer of plays." Clifford Davidson, Renaissance Quarterly "It is rare these days to read a scholarly book that is as beautifully written as Peter Thomson's Shakespeare's Professional Career. To enter the overtrodden ground of Shakespearean biography and politics can be a daunting prospect for reader and writer alike, but Thomson, with his lively pen and sharp, witty mind, makes it easy and pleasant to go over what we think we already know--and, with deceptive ease, offers new and interesting insights from his unusual perspective." Derek Cohen, American Theatre

Críticas

"It is rare these days to read a scholarly book that is as beautifully written as Peter Thomson's Shakespeare's Professional Career. To enter the overtrodden ground of Shakespearean biography and politics can be a daunting prospect for reader and writer alike, but Thomson, with his lively pen and sharp, witty mind, makes it easy and pleasant to go over what we think we already know--and, with deceptive ease, offers new and interesting insights from his unusual perspective." Derek Cohen, American Theatre

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521466555
• ISBN 13: 9780521466554
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 229