Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

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University Press of Kentucky, 06/09/1990 - 234 páginas

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare -- or any poet of the time -- ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating.

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The Caroline Professionals
1
Massingers Tragicomedy of Reformation
33
Fords Tragedy of Ritual Suffering
73
Shirleys Social Comedy of Adaptation to Degree
112
Bromes Comedy of Types and Inversions
155
Epilogue
197
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Gary Schmidgall, professor of English at Hunter College, is the author of numerous books including Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919.

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