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Shakespeare at Thirty | 10.82 MB

Title: Shakespeare at Thirty
Author: Rory Loughnane
Category: British, Literary, Shakespeare
Language: English | 347 Pages | ISBN: 9780691296821


Description:
A revelatory portrait of Shakespeare's life before he achieved fame
Shakespeare at Thirty offers an original account of Shakespeare's early career by returning to a moment before his fame was assured: the spring of 1594, when he turned thirty amid plague closures, censorship, social upheaval, financial insecurity, and professional uncertainty. Instead of reading Shakespeare's beginnings through the lens of later achievement, Rory Loughnane reconstructs the precarious world in which a young actor-writer learned his craft and forged a path through a rapidly developing theatre scene.
Drawing on recent advances in textual scholarship, biography, and theatre history, the book sets Shakespeare's early plays and poems within the collaborative literary networks and volatile theatre world of late-Elizabethan London. It examines the forms of co-authorship underlying many of Shakespeare's early works; the pressures that plague, censorship, and the authorities put on...