Shakespeare and the poet's life
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
eBook, English, ©1990
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., ©1990
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1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations
9780813157252, 9780813130941, 0813157250, 0813130948
551510388
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
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