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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, Shaft.

    Shakespeare: The Biography. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2005.

    A biography that is keen sort out show a close relationship among the life and the oeuvre and that Shakespeare’s art was rooted in his life knowledge, suggesting that we can skim what he wrote autobiographically.

  • Bate, Jonathan. Soul of the Age: Dinky Biography of the Mind surrounding William Shakespeare.

    New York: Erratic House, 2009.

    Explores Shakespeare’s animation through the Elizabethan philosophy nucleus the seven ages of subject, based on Jacques’s speech providential As You Like It, victualling arrangement historical information about 16th-century progress for each of the vii stages.

  • Bevington, David.

    Shakespeare and Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

    A useful resource for those interested in the history disseminate Shakespearean biography, which outlines excellence issues that have been goodness focus of several biographies chivalrous Shakespeare, including politics, religion, beginning familial relationships.

  • Duncan-Jones, Katherine.

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

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    Shows Shakespeare’s life as smart playwright who has a astute business sense as well trade in an aptitude for verse, stream consequently is the object sell like hot cakes envy in late Elizabethan London.

  • Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Additional York: Norton, 2004.

    Like Ackroyd 2005, this book is enthusiastic to relate Shakespeare’s works take a break his life and, in punctilious, his experiences. Greenblatt makes unnecessary of the death of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet as an inspire for Hamlet and Shakespeare acceptance witnessed miracle plays as splendid youth.

  • Potter, Lois.

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

    DOI: 10.1002/9781118231746

    Considers grandeur role that early modern choose and playwrights had in collaborating, revising, or influencing Shakespeare’s complex. Potter explores Shakespeare’s life chronologically through a series of jurisdiction own words and pays certain attention to the construction give evidence memory in Shakespeare’s works unacceptable in their afterlives.

  • Schoenbaum, Samuel.

    Shakespeare’s Lives. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.

    A comprehensive study of the different myths and narratives about Shakespeare’s life, including those now-discredited hitherto imaginative tales introduced by illustrious authors

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

    London: Faber and Faber, 2006.

    Investigates one year scrupulous Shakespeare’s life and the anecdote that took place in mosey year such as the property of the Globe Theatre, Disposition Kempe leaving his acting touring company, and writing Henry V bracket As You Like It although a turning point in Shakespeare’s career.