Download or read book Shakespeare s Friends Revealed written by Beryl Hughes and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book solves a 400 year old mystery about Shakespeare's friends. The contents are based on a theory which fits in exactly with all the words in the sonnets and with historically recorded facts. There is no firm evidence, but this theory reveals a fascinating and tragic story about Shakespeare's associates which will be very difficult to discredit. It illustrates the theological emphasis in Hamlet and the influences from the Church that Shakespeare encountered. It encompasses the tangled web of deceit between Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius and Gertrude and how this story reflected the events in Shakespeare's own life.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Friends written by Kate Emery Pogue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking seriously the commonplace that a man is known by the company he keeps—and particularly by the company he keeps over his lifetime—one can learn more about just about anyone by learning more about his friends. By applying this notion to Shakespeare, this book offers insight into the life of the most famous playwright in history, and one of the most elusive figures in literature. The book consists of sketches of Shakespeare's contact and relationships with the people known to have been close friends or acquaintances, revealing aspects of the poet's life by emphasizing ways in which his life was intertwined with theirs. Though it is difficult to get to know this most famous of playwrights, through this work readers can gain insight into aspects of his life and personality that may otherwise have been hidden. Shakespeare, more than any other writer in the western world, based much of his work on the consequences of friendship. Given the value placed on friends in his writing, many readers have wondered about the role friendship played in his own life. This work gives readers the chance to learn more about Shakespeare's friends, who they were and what they can tell us about Shakespeare and his times. For instance, Richard Field was a boyhood friend with whom Shakespeare went to school in Stratford. Field became a well-known London printer. The details of Field's life illuminate both the details of Shakespeare's boyhood education and the poet's relationship with the printing, publishing, and book-selling world in London. Francis Collins, a lawyer who represented Shakespeare in a number of legal dealings, drafted both versions of Shakespeare's will. This life-long friend was one of the last men eve to see Shakespeare pick up a pen to write. Through these vivid and animated sketches, readers will come to know about Shakespeare's life and times. While the book has a lively, accessible narrative tone within chapters, its organization and features make it highly useful to the school library market as well as the academic world. It contains cross references, a detailed Table of Contents and a highly organized structure with uniformity across sections and chapters. The writing is accessible and could be easily used by upper-level high school students looking to augment school assignments.
Download or read book Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford s Letters written by William Plumer Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Treatment of Friendship As Revealed in Four of His Dramas written by Sister Mary Honorata Hesse (O. S. F.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sonnets of Shakespeare Solved and the Mystery of His Friendship Love and Rivalry Revealed Etc written by Henry Brown and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare and His London Associates as Revealed in Recently Discovered Documents written by Charles William Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sonnets of Shakespeare Solved written by Henry Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author's PRELIMINARY REMARKS. There are many objections made to the Sonnets of Shakespeare, but they arise entirely from misunderstanding. Those who so misjudge should be told, as werethe readers of the first folio of his dramatic works, to "read him therefore again and again, and if then you do not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger not to understand him." If such a request was made for the Plays, how much more necessary is it for the Sonnets, which are throughout as dark as the Plays are clear! The first question upon the subject is, Who was the friend spoken of so much in the poems in question? I answer, Master William Herbert, afterwards third Earl of Pembroke, and him alone it is the object of these pages to establish asclaiming the honour of the friendship of Shakespeare. It was to this nobleman and his brother, designated those "incomparable pair of brethren," that the first folio was dedicated, as the "remains of your servant Shakespeare," at the time when Lord Southampton, who was publicly known as our poet's earliest patron, was living and in London. About the date this loving friendship was contracted (1597), Lord Southampton embarked as a volunteer in the expedition against Spain, and in the following year he attended Essex to Ireland as general of the horse, and subsequently, when Essex fell under the royal displeasure, Southampton, who was leagued with him in his mad-cap rebellion, was committed to the Tower, and although his life was spared, he was kept in prison during the remainder of Elizabeth's reign. (See Bell's Poems of Shakspeare, p. 36.) Our poet himself, cautious against arousing the enmity of church or state, would naturally turn to one cautious and politic like himself, which Herbert was. Shakespeare may also have offended the headstrong earl in seeking, by good advice, to curb his wild career. This might naturally lead to a transfer of friendship; and the one fact of Shakespeare not being known to pen consolatory verses to Southampton when in prison for high treason, as other poets were doing, significantly points to a rupture between them. The reason of this is that Lord Southampton was merely a patron sought for by the poet, while Master Herbert proved more than patron, he became Shakespeare's all unlooked-for constant friend, from his youth upward. Hence the poet pays him a higher compliment than Lord Southampton had received. Master Herbert is the actual Adonis of the poem addressed to him. I acknowledge that he is no new claimant. My object is to add to the evidence already brought forward in proof of his right to it, although numerous critics assent to his being the man, among whom is Mr. Hallam. But what is most to the purpose is that there is full agreement between that young lord and the youth described in the Sonnets. The beauty which distinguished him so much above others I am able to show, Shakespeare was not alone in extolling.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets Among His Private Friends written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for all readers, an exciting, innovative approach to Shakespeare's Sonnets."His sugared Sonnets among his private friends." That's how Shakespeare's Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet-with a penchant for irreverent fun-getting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous sonnet cycles were published that typically told the story of thwarted love. The same topics are repeated: a chaste and beautiful lady, a love-sick poet dreaming only of his beloved, sunk into despair by her cruelty (cruel only because she decides to remain chaste). Shakespeare's Sonnets are like this, but with a twist-adding a love triangle that turning convention upside down. Working out all the possibilities of this intriguing story as the sonnets progress is all part of the fun.Atkins invites you to imagine that you are among the friends our poet has allowed to see his new sonnets. You'll read the poems and the discussion of each one, trying to figure out the story. See what it might have been like to read Shakespeare's Sonnets "among his private friends."This book, complete with glosses of difficult words and phrases and a thorough explanation of each poem, is as carefully edited as the acclaimed variorum edition published by Atkins in 2007, Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Three Hundred Years of Commentary. It has the same sensitive readings of verse that made his variorum edition unique. (For those particularly interested in Shakespeare's use of meter, Atkins has made a complete metrical analysis of all 154 poems, which serves as an excellent companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets Among His Private Friends. It is available free at amonghisprivatefriends.com.) Also unique to this edition is a look at how the last 28 sonnets about a "dark lady" may have been influenced by Christopher Marlowe's English translation of Ovid's erotic poems, Amores (Book 1 of which is included in an appendix).294 pages including appendix, bibliography and index
Download or read book Shakespeare Revealed written by René Weis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimacies with Marlowe, entanglements in London with the mysterious dark lady, the probable fathering of an illegitimate son - the mysteries of Shakespeare's personal life have proven tantalisingly obscure. In Shakespeare Revealed, acclaimed authority, René Weis, brings the man and his milieu to the fore in a compelling reassessment. Breaking with tradition, he reveals how the works themselves contain a rich seam of clues about Shakespeare's life, from his heretical dalliances with Catholicism to his grief at the death of his son Hamnet. If there is a code in his writing, Shakespeare always intended it to be broken. This striking re-reading is consolidated by scrupulous archival research. Through reconstruction of records of the age, René Weis builds a colourful picture of Shakespeare's daily life: the bustling market town of Stratford, the spellbinding forests of Warwickshire, the pell-mell of London's theatres. Above all he reanimates Shakespeare's social scene: Stratford's family affairs and neighbourly disputes and a dangerous London scene, peopled with shady spies, informers and torturers.
Download or read book Two Gentlemen of Verona written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the work "Two gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare along with notes and commentary by Shakespearean authorities.
Download or read book Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare s England written by Will Tosh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England reveals the complex and unfamiliar forms of friendship that existed between men in the late sixteenth century. Using the unpublished letter archive of the Elizabethan spy Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), it shows how Bacon negotiated a path through life that relied on the support of his friends, rather than the advantages and status that came with marriage. Through a set of case-studies focusing on the Inns of Court, the prison, the aristocratic great house and the spiritual connection between young and ardent Protestants, this book argues that the ‘friendship spaces’ of early modern England permitted the expression of male same-sex intimacy to a greater extent than has previously been acknowledged.
Download or read book Remembering Shakespeare written by David Scott Kastan and published by Beinecke Rare Book Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To be or not to be." "My kingdom for a horse." "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day." How is it that Shakespeare is so well remembered? In this richly illustrated book, David Scott Kastan and Kathryn James explore Yale University's extraordinary collection of works by or relating to William Shakespeare. They chart the winding course by which the playwright has been remembered, often in unexpected ways, for some four centuries. Many of the rare items illustrated and discussed in the book have never before been publicly displayed. The authors examine such treasures as the earliest known manuscript of Macbeth, a sixteenth-century reader's notes on Shakespeare, and a proof copy of Walt Whitman's "Shakespeare-Bacon's Cipher," to show how various, idiosyncratic acts of memory over hundreds of years have given us the texts, and even the person, we remember as "Shakespeare." Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition Schedule: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library(02/01/12-06/04/12)
Download or read book Shakespeare s Friend of the Sonnets written by Beryl Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text illustrates the theological emphasis in Shakespeare's Hamlet and the influences from the Church that Shakespeare encountered. Beryl Hughes looks into the tangled web of deceit between Ophelia, Claudius, Gertrude and the King, and how such literature relates to the events occurring in Shakespeare's own life. She also uncovers the mystery surrounding his friendships with Robert Southwell and Anne Bellamy, and the tragic end which inevitably veiled their demise.
Download or read book William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the poetry of William Shakespeare through a sampling of sonnets and excerpts from his plays.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Face written by Stephanie Nolen and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 11, 2001, Globe and Mail reporter Stephanie Nolen announced a stunning discovery to the world: an attractive portrait held by an Ontario family for twelve generations, which may well be the only known portrait of Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. Shakespeare’s Face is the biography of a portrait — a literary mystery story — and the furious debate that has ensued since its discovery. A slip of paper affixed to the back proclaims “Shakespere. This likeness taken 1603, Age at that time 39 ys.” But is it really Shakespeare who peers at us from the small oil on wood painting? The twinkling eyes, reddish hair, and green jacket are not in keeping with the duller, traditional images of the bard. But they are more suggestive of the humorous and humane man who wrote the greatest plays in the English language. Shakespeare’s Face tells the riveting story of how the painting came to reside in the home of a retired engineer in a mid-sized Ontario town. The painting is reputed to be by John Sanders of Worcester, England. As a retirement project, the engineer, whose grandmother kept the family treasure under her bed, embarked on authenticating the portrait: the forensic analyses that followed have proven it without doubt to the period. In a remarkable publishing coup, Knopf Canada has gathered around Stephanie Nolen’s story a group of the world’s leading Shakespeare scholars and art and cultural historians to delve into one of the most fascinating literary mysteries of our times: “Is this the face of genius?” Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Shakespeare’s Face by Stephanie Nolen By the late afternoon I was beginning to go a little cross-eyed. I had examined countless documents and read the test results from the painting’s painstaking forensic analysis. I now had everything I needed to write my story — except for one crucial item. “Is he here?” I asked, almost in a whisper.... The owner laid the package carefully on the cluttered table. He gently pulled back the kraft paper wrapping, underneath which was a layer of bubble wrap. Then he peeled back this second layer to reveal his treasure. I was caught off-guard by how small the portrait was — and how vivid. The colours in the paint seemed too rich to be 400 years old. Except for the hairline cracks in the varnish, the face could have been painted yesterday. And there was nothing austere or haughty about it, nothing of the great man being painted for posterity. It was a rogue’s face, a charmer’s face that looked back at me with a tolerant, mischievous slightly world-weary air.... It was painted on two pieces of solid board so expertly joined that the seam was barely visible. A date, “Ano 1603”, was painted in small red letters in the top right hand corner. The right side had been nibbled by woodworms.... I stood and gazed, quelling an instinctive urge to pick the portrait up and hold it in my hands. And as my professional skepticism crumpled for a moment, I found myself wanting desperately to believe that this was indeed Shakespeare’s face.
Download or read book William Shakespeare written by David Scott Kasten and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare was the greatest poet and playwright who ever lived, the dramatist who penned lines that we quote without even realising their origin. This work introduces children to the Bard, with a fully annotated collection of sonnets and soliloquies.
Download or read book An Essay on the Ghost Belief of Shakespeare written by Alfred Thomas ROFFE and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
