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1 online resource (250 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Coyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations; Introduction; 1 ""Thou Thing Most Abhorred"": The Poet and His Muse; 2 ""Dedicated Words"": The Strategies of Front Matter; 3 Poet's Labors Lost: Patronage in Shakespeare; 4 ""Chameleon Muse"": The Poets Life in Shakespeares Courts; 5 ""Fearful Meditation"": The Young Man and the Poets Life; Epilogue: Statues and Breathers; Appendix: Exemplary Front Matter; Notes; Index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Authorship. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Contemporaries.
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Contemporaries. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with literary patrons.
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Relations with literary patrons. |
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Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Authors and patrons. |
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England. |
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History. |
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16th century |
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.
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Poets, English -- Early modern -- Biography. |
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Literary patrons -- Great Britain.
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Literary patrons. |
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Great Britain. |
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Authors and patrons in literature.
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Authors and patrons in literature. |
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Poets in literature.
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Poets in literature. |
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century.
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Courts and courtiers. |
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1500-1599 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schmidgall, Gary. Shakespeare and the Poet's Life. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813117065 |
| ISBN |
9780813157252 (electronic book) |
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0813157250 (electronic book) |
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