Book description
The
Life of William Shakespeare
is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and
works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts:
what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and
how these various collaborations may have affected his writing.
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Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced
theatre reviewer
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Pays particular attention to Shakespeare's theatrical
contemporaries and the ways in which they influenced his writing
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Offers an intriguing account of the life and work of the great
poet-dramatist structured around the idea of memory
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Explores often neglected literary and historical contexts that
illuminate Shakespeare's life and works
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
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