Autobiography in Shakespeare's Plays: Lands So by His Father LostP. Lang, 2002 - 124 pàgines Shakespeare's authorship of his plays can no longer be in doubt with this book's clear identification of autobiographical passages throughout his work from his legal documents in Stratford and London courts. Shakespeare refers to the loss of his inheritance, by his father mortgaging it to his uncle, from early works such as Taming of the Shrew to the late Lear. His mother is referred to in As You Like It and Coriolanus; his twins in Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night; and the loss of his son from Merchant of Venice to Macbeth. His daughters, as recipients of his accumulated wealth, are subjects of his concern from Lear to The Tempest. More important, the knowledge of the law in his personal pursuits is revealed as a source for the legal content in his works, which found fit audiences among jurists at the Inns of Court law schools and in King James' Court. Shakespeare pleased the king on these matters enough to have him command his plays to be repeated on an occasion. For himself, Shakespeare learned from his own writing how to deal with the language of law theoretically and conceptually with such concepts as equity and mercy in Chancery. He used his own family life, personal documents, and legal problems to give impetus to his version of borrowed characters, plots, plays, and history. These personal events, from the placement of the references, give his plays, which sometimes end with a fictionalized, wish-fulfillment, or literary compensation, an autobiographical initial compulsion. |
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... plays , from obscurity . This endeavor attempts to begin the project with a few threads of play - text and life - text . For the sake of focus I will restrict my data initially to a legal event in Shakespeare's life , and by no means ...
... plays , from obscurity . This endeavor attempts to begin the project with a few threads of play - text and life - text . For the sake of focus I will restrict my data initially to a legal event in Shakespeare's life , and by no means ...
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... text , a moment , at the time of the creation of his play - text and note some surprising implications beyond mere parallels . These raise beyond a relationship to his case and personal losses a question of viewpoint toward characters in ...
... text , a moment , at the time of the creation of his play - text and note some surprising implications beyond mere parallels . These raise beyond a relationship to his case and personal losses a question of viewpoint toward characters in ...
Pàgina 89
... play . Indeed , he had seen his life - text before in his own play - text in analogous law - texts and constructions , or " symboleography " , as the law theorists called it . If Shakespeare's death were not hastened by difficulties ...
... play . Indeed , he had seen his life - text before in his own play - text in analogous law - texts and constructions , or " symboleography " , as the law theorists called it . If Shakespeare's death were not hastened by difficulties ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
Twins at the Inns of Court | 19 |
A Sons Loss and Compensation | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Autobiography in Shakespeare's Plays: Lands So by His Father Lost William Nicholas Knight Previsualització limitada - 2002 |
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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 57, Macbeth and Its Afterlife: An Annual Survey ... Peter Holland Previsualització limitada - 2004 |