Opis: What's in a Name? How Historians Know Shakespeare Was Shakespeare - Susan Dwyer Amussen

A compelling tour of Shakespeare's England that makes a powerful contribution to the 'authorship question'. How do we know Shakespeare was Shakespeare? Could a glover's son who left school at fifteen really be the author behind such masterpieces as Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest? Yes! says historian Susan Amussen. She transports readers back to early modern England, to travel the path that carried William Shakespeare from humble origins in Stratford to literary greatness on the London stage. This was a society undergoing rapid change. Grammar schools made education in Latin and Greek available to commoners, while touring players brought the latest dramatic productions to the masses. And in London, a metropolis filled with European visitors, ordinary people had the opportunity to see courtly life up close. No serious historian doubts that Shakespeare was the author of the plays that bear his name. Susan Amussen shares what they know: that Shakespeare's England was a complex and cosmopolitan place, with everything a talented young playwright needed to develop his craft and furnish his imagination. -- .

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Nazwa: What's in a Name? How Historians Know Shakespeare Was Shakespeare
Autor: Susan Dwyer Amussen
Wydawnictwo: Manchester University Press
Kod paskowy: 9781526191908
Ilość stron: 232
Format: 242 x 165 x 20
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.47 kg

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