Shakespeare and the Poet's Life
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TextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780813157252
- Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Authors and patrons in literature
- Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century
- Literary patrons -- Great Britain
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Poets in literature
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Contemporaries
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with literary patrons
- Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literary patrons -- Great Britain
- Authors and patrons in literature
- Poets in literature
- PR2957 .S535 2015
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Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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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