The Life of William Shakespeare

A Critical Biography

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Lois Potter

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Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies

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The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing. Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewer Pays particular attention to Shakespeare's theatrical contemporaries and the ways in which they influenced his writing Offers an intriguing account of the life and work of the great poet-dramatist structured around the idea of memory Explores often neglected literary and historical contexts that illuminate Shakespeare's life and works

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Lois Potter recently retired as Ned B. Allen Chair at theUniversity of Delaware. She has also taught at the Universities ofAberdeen, Leicester, and Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and at TsudaCollege, Tokyo. Her publications include Twelfth Night: Text andPerformance (1986), the Arden edition of The Two NobleKinsmen (1997, 2001), and Shakespeare in Performance:Othello (2002). She is also the editor of two volumes in theRevels History of Drama in English series (1981 and 1984), and hasbeen a frequent reviewer of plays for the Times LiterarySupplement, Shakespeare Quarterly, and ShakespeareBulletin.

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April 13th, 2012

Author

Lois Potter

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

512

Series

Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9781118281529

Product ID

19577225

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