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William Shakespeare

A Literary Life

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Richard Dutton

    1. Lancaster University, UK

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Myths, Legends and Anonymity

    • Richard Dutton
    Pages 1-16

  3. Beginnings

    • Richard Dutton
    Pages 17-35

  4. Poems and Patrons

    • Richard Dutton
    Pages 36-49

  5. Servant to the Lord Chamberlain

    • Richard Dutton
    Pages 50-70

  6. English Chronicle Histories

    • Richard Dutton
    Pages 71-87

  7. Sly’s Dream — Romantic Comedy

    • Richard Dutton
    Pages 88-104

  8. The Turn of the Century

    • Richard Dutton
    Pages 105-125

  9. The New Reign

    • Richard Dutton
    Pages 126-140

  10. ‘Tales, Tempests and such like drolleries’

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    Pages 141-159

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 160-180
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About this book

William Shakespeare is the best-known writer in the English-speaking world. Contrary to popular myth, we actually know more about him and his career than we do about most dramatists of his era - the fruits of three hundred years of fascinated research. Whilst we know less than we would like about Shakespeare's private life, we do have a far clearer picture of his professional career, and of the theatres and social structures with which he was involved. And yet the significance of what we know is fiercely contested and we are challenged by a host of contradictions. Elizabethan actors were often classed as vagabonds yet some were also servants to royalty who performed at court. All the roles in Shakespeare's plays were acted by men, yet he wrote strong roles for women from Lady Macbeth to Rosalind. So was Shakespeare a feminist before his time? Richard Dutton tackles these and other issues which keep Shakespeare, the most influential literary life in literary history, at the centre of our cultural life today.

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  • Lancaster University, UK

    Richard Dutton

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