TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmidgall,Gary
TI  - Shakespeare and the Poet's Life
SN  - 9780813157252
AV  - PR2957 .S535 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Authors and patrons
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Authors and patrons in literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Court and courtiers
KW  - Literary patrons
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Poets in literature
KW  - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Contemporaries
KW  - Relations with literary patrons
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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 --
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