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- Shakespeare and the Poet's Life
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Note on Citations
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Epilogue: Statues and Breathers
- pp. 196-203
- Appendix: Exemplary Front Matter
- pp. 204-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813157252
Related ISBN(s)
9780813117065, 9780813130941, 9780813187617
MARC Record
OCLC
551510388
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No