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Description
Shakespeare's extraordinarily ordinary life condenses into a charming but brief biography in this arresting tale of love, loss and return. Beginning with the early departure to the final homecoming, Paul Menzer considers the wonder of Shakespeare's story with the little facts we have about his life to guide us through the language and characters which define Shakespeare.
Life events are glimpsed across Shakespeare's wide-ranging output, be it personal quest and departure from a small town in The Taming of The Shew, the death of a father and the cruel loss of his own son in Hamlet, or retirement and old age in The Tempest's figure of Prospero. Menzer honours the well-known stories without neglecting the mysteries of why Shakespeare left Stratford, who he ran with in London and why he put down his pen to come home to Anne and his family again, and again.
This edition is adapted from William Shakespeare: A Brief Life with an updated introduction, further connections between Shakespeare's works and personal biography, new illustrations of Shakespeare's journey between London and Stratford, cutting-edge scholarship and recent archival discoveries about Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Shakespeare's Dead
Chapter 2. Earth Unto Earth
Chapter 3. Shakespeare at School
Chapter 4. Anne Hathaway, aka
Chapter 5. The Lost Years
Chapter 6. Stratford in the Rear View
Chapter 7. Enter London
Chapter 8. Shakespeare, playwright
Chapter 9. Shakespeare, poet
Chapter 10. Shakespeare's Company
Chapter 11. William Shakespeare, gent.
Chapter 12. Shakespeare at Court
Chapter 13. Shakespeare's Globe?
Chapter 14. Shakespeare's Properties
Chapter 15. The King's Man
Chapter 16. The Plague Years
Chapter 17. Shakespeare's Daughters
Chapter 18. The Returning Point
Chapter 19. Shakespeare's Head
Chapter 20. Arrivals and Departures
Chapter 21. I am Dead
Chapter 22. Heaven is a Library
Epilogue: Yellow Leaves
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | 29 Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350542655 |
| Imprint | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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