Shakespeare's Apprenticeship
Author : Robert Yongue Turner
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN :
Author : Robert Yongue Turner
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN :
Author : Ramon Jiménez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476633312
The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. Now, new literary and historical evidence demonstrates that five heretofore anonymous plays published or performed during his lifetime are actually his first versions of later canonical works. Three histories, The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The True Tragedy of Richard the Third, and The Troublesome Reign of John; a comedy, The Taming of a Shrew; and a romance, King Leir, are products of Shakespeare's juvenile years. Later in his career, he transformed them into the plays that bear nearly identical titles. Each is strikingly similar to its canonical counterpart in terms of structure, plot and cast, though the texts were entirely rewritten. Virtually all scholars, critics and editors of Shakespeare have overlooked or disputed the idea that he had anything to do with them. This addition of five plays to the Shakespeare canon introduces a new facet to the authorship debate, and supplies further evidence that the real Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
Author : Ramon Jiménez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476672644
The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. Now, new literary and historical evidence demonstrates that five heretofore anonymous plays published or performed during his lifetime are actually his first versions of later canonical works. Three histories, The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The True Tragedy of Richard the Third, and The Troublesome Reign of John; a comedy, The Taming of a Shrew; and a romance, King Leir, are products of Shakespeare's juvenile years. Later in his career, he transformed them into the plays that bear nearly identical titles. Each is strikingly similar to its canonical counterpart in terms of structure, plot and cast, though the texts were entirely rewritten. Virtually all scholars, critics and editors of Shakespeare have overlooked or disputed the idea that he had anything to do with them. This addition of five plays to the Shakespeare canon introduces a new facet to the authorship debate, and supplies further evidence that the real Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
Author : Veronica Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9781844281480
Sam Gilburne is a farmer's son who is an apprentice in Shakespeare's theatre - When he falls in love with Lucie, the niece of Lord Essex, their relationship seems to be doomed from the start.
Author : Ursula De Allendesalazar
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2016-08-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781537422848
William Shakespeare, Apprentice is a light-hearted fantasy about the years the young Shakespeare spent in the making, which are commonly referred to as the lost years. In an entertaining and persuasive way, this book defies the tenet that "whereof nothing is known thereof one must remain silent." Shakespeare finds himself drawn into the secret world of Elizabethan espionage, working for one of Sir Francis Walsingham's agents. He finds time to try his hand at poems and a play. On his return from his first trip abroad, he is given an assignment - this time on his own - to gather intelligence in Spain. After having barely set foot there, he is caught and imprisoned. He determines to become an actor if he regains his freedom. Back again in England, in April of the Armada year, Shakespeare begins his new life. A strange encounter with the charismatic young Earl of Southampton gives rise to Shakespeare's true genius.
Author : Gary Blackwood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101200030
A delightful adveture full of humor and heart set in Elizabethan England! Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama. * "A fast-moving historical novel that introduces an important era with casual familiarity." --School Library Journal, starred review "Readers will find much to like in Widge, and plenty to enjoy in this gleeful romp through olde England" --Kirkus Reviews "Excels in the lively depictions of Elizabethan stagecraft and street life." --Publishers Weekly An ALA Notable Book
Author : Philip Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521616942
Shakespeare scholars give an account of particularly important or interesting features of Shakespeare's use of language.
Author : Carol Chillington Rutter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1134216688
Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. Focusing mostly on boys, he put sons against fathers, servants against masters, innocence against experience, testing the notion of masculinity, manners, morals, and the limits of patriarchal power. He explored the nature of relationships and ideas about parenting in terms of nature and nurture, permissiveness and discipline, innocence and evil. He wrote about education, adolescent rebellion, delinquency, fostering, and child-killing, as well as the idea of the redemptive child who ‘cures’ diseased adult imaginations. ‘Childness’ – the essential nature of being a child – remains a vital critical issue for us today. In Shakespeare and Child’s-Play Carol Rutter shows how recent performances on stage and film have used the range of Shakespeare’s insights in order to re-examine and re-think these issues in terms of today’s society and culture.
Author : Karl Elze
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 1888
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Terence G. Schoone-Jongen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317056167
Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with the various London acting companies before his membership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. Locating Shakespeare in the confusing records of the early London theater scene has long been one of the many unresolved problems in Shakespeare studies and is a key issue in theatre history, Shakespeare biography, and historiography. The aim in this book is to explain, analyze, and assess the competing claims about Shakespeare's pre-1594 acting company affiliations. Schoone-Jongen does not demonstrate that one particular claim is correct but provides a possible framework for Shakespeare's activities in the 1570s and 1580s, an overview of both London and provincial playing, and then offers a detailed analysis of the historical plausibility and probability of the warring claims made by biographers, ranging from the earliest sixteenth-century references to contemporary arguments. Full chapters are devoted to four specific acting companies, their activities, and a summary and critique of the arguments for Shakespeare's involvement in them (The Queen's Men, Strange's Men, Pembroke's Men, and Sussex's Men), a further chapter is dedicated to the proposition Shakespeare's first theatrical involvement was in a recusant Lancashire household, and a final chapter focuses on arguments for Shakespeare's membership in a half dozen other companies (most prominently Leicester's Men). Shakespeare's Companies simultaneously opens up twenty years of theatrical activity to inquiry and investigation while providing a critique of Shakespearean biographers and their historical methodologies.