Shakespeare: A Life in ArtRoutledge, 28 de jul. 2017 - 325 pàgines Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992). This volume includes a new introduction, which looks back on the author's lifelong commitment to Shakespeare's work and seeks to find the pattern in his carpet.Fraser's approach places Shakespeare's work first but shows how the life and art interpenetrate, like the yolk and white of one shell. What Shakespeare was doing in Stratford and London underlies what he was writing, or more exactly, the two flow together. Most of the book is devoted to Shakespeare the man and artist, but it simultaneously throws light on his literary and personal relations with contemporaries such as Jonson, Marlowe, and others known as the University Wits. His experience as an actor and man of theater is absorbingly recounted here, as well as his relations to well-born patrons like the Earl of Southampton and Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon (England's Lord Chamberlain). In 1603 when James I ascended the throne, the Chamberlain's Men became the King's Men, passing under the sovereign's protection. How Shakespeare responded to his ambiguous role--he was both servant to the great and their remorseless critic--is another of Fraser's subjects. In short, Fraser's principal purpose is to advance our understanding of Shakespeare, at the same time throwing light on the work of the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul. John Dryden, Shakespeare's first great critic, said that, and Fraser tries to estimate what he meant. |
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... thinks our free will has no limit. Helena is like that, none more aggressive among Shakespeare's heroines. She doesn't say, like Viola in Twelfth Night, “Time must untangle this, not I.” Though the man she wants to marry is out of her ...
... thinks our free will has no limit. Helena is like that, none more aggressive among Shakespeare's heroines. She doesn't say, like Viola in Twelfth Night, “Time must untangle this, not I.” Though the man she wants to marry is out of her ...
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... thinks “There's place and means for every man alive” (4.3). Shakespeare's psychology meets St. Thomas's in one particular, that his characters, all of them, have “the wisdom by their wit to lose” (Merchant of Venice 2.9). That isn't a ...
... thinks “There's place and means for every man alive” (4.3). Shakespeare's psychology meets St. Thomas's in one particular, that his characters, all of them, have “the wisdom by their wit to lose” (Merchant of Venice 2.9). That isn't a ...
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... thinks. He derives it from human nature, which sets limits on the things we can do. We can't tear ourselves from our roots, says a pivotal text in King Lear (4.2), not without mortal consequence. That nature which contemns its origin ...
... thinks. He derives it from human nature, which sets limits on the things we can do. We can't tear ourselves from our roots, says a pivotal text in King Lear (4.2), not without mortal consequence. That nature which contemns its origin ...
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... think this hopeful sentiment, emphasizing willed behavior, supplies a key to happy endings. I think that Shakespeare in age looked at it wryly. His last plays emphasize our legacy from birth, the difference maker determining whether we ...
... think this hopeful sentiment, emphasizing willed behavior, supplies a key to happy endings. I think that Shakespeare in age looked at it wryly. His last plays emphasize our legacy from birth, the difference maker determining whether we ...
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... Shakespeare and thinking about him, a longtime occupation. My students, making me think twice, have been my collaborators, and I dedicate what I have written to them. 1 The Country FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO, Robert Greene said.
... Shakespeare and thinking about him, a longtime occupation. My students, making me think twice, have been my collaborators, and I dedicate what I have written to them. 1 The Country FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO, Robert Greene said.
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