Shakespeare and the Poet's Life
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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Coyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Note on Citations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 "Thou Thing Most Abhorred": The Poet and His Muse
  11. 2 "Dedicated Words": The Strategies of Front Matter
  12. 3 Poet's Labors Lost: Patronage in Shakespeare
  13. 4 "Chameleon Muse": The Poets Life in Shakespeares Courts
  14. 5 "Fearful Meditation": The Young Man and the Poets Life
  15. Epilogue: Statues and Breathers
  16. Appendix: Exemplary Front Matter
  17. Notes
  18. Index