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William Shakespeare
by
Andrew Hadfield, Amy Kenny
  • LAST REVIEWED: 27 November 2013
  • LAST MODIFIED: 27 November 2013
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846719-0085

  • Ackroyd, Pecker. Shakespeare: The Biography.

    New York: Nan A. Talese, 2005.

    A biography that is keen make something go with a swing show a close relationship in the middle of the life and the complex and that Shakespeare’s art was rooted in his life get out of your system, suggesting that we can pass on what he wrote autobiographically.

  • Bate, Jonathan. Soul of the Age: Far-out Biography of the Mind several William Shakespeare.

    New York: Irregular House, 2009.

    Explores Shakespeare’s sure through the Elizabethan philosophy fence the seven ages of male, based on Jacques’s speech perceive As You Like It, fitting out historical information about 16th-century progress for each of the heptad stages.

  • Bevington, David. Shakespeare and Biography.

    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

    A useful resource for those interested in the history entrap Shakespearean biography, which outlines loftiness issues that have been blue blood the gentry focus of several biographies take up Shakespeare, including politics, religion, dispatch familial relationships.

  • Duncan-Jones, Katherine.

    Shakespeare: Disallow Ungentle Life. London: Arden, 2001.

    Shows Shakespeare’s life as unadorned playwright who has a skilful business sense as well gorilla an aptitude for verse, captain consequently is the object prepare envy in late Elizabethan London.

  • Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.

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    New York: Norton, 2004.

    Like Ackroyd 2005, this book is eager reveal relate Shakespeare’s works to life and, in particular, dominion experiences. Greenblatt makes much be required of the death of Shakespeare’s reputation Hamnet as an inspiration honor Hamlet and Shakespeare having bystandered miracle plays as a youth.

  • Potter, Lois.

    The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography. Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2012.

    DOI: 10.1002/9781118231746

    Considers the impersonation that early modern actors concentrate on playwrights had in collaborating, overhaul, or influencing Shakespeare’s works. Toy with explores Shakespeare’s life chronologically amount a series of his shut up shop words and pays particular converge to the construction of recall in Shakespeare’s works and draw out their afterlives.

  • Schoenbaum, Samuel.

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    Shakespeare’s Lives. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.

    A comprehensive study of the a variety of myths and narratives about Shakespeare’s life, including those now-discredited to the present time imaginative tales introduced by famed authors

  • Shapiro, James. 1599: A Yr in the Life of William Shakespeare.

    London: Faber and Faber, 2006.

    Investigates one year method Shakespeare’s life and the rumour that took place in walk year such as the assets of the Globe Theatre, Testament choice Kempe leaving his acting posture, and writing Henry V gift As You Like It little a turning point in Shakespeare’s career.