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- Book Title
- The Private Life of William Shakespeare
- Publication Name
- Private Life of William Shakespeare
- Title
- The Private Life of William Shakespeare
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0192846302
- EAN
- 9780192846303
- ISBN
- 9780192846303
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- 16/09/2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 28.5 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables. It also shows how the histories of some of Shakespeare's neighbours illuminate aspects of his own life. Throughout, we encounter a Shakespeare who consciously and with purpose designed his life. Having witnessed the business failures of his merchant father, he determined not to follow his father's model. His early wedding freed him from craft training to pursue a literary career. His wife's work, and probably the assistance of his parents and brothers, enabled him to make the first of the property purchases that grounded his life as a gentleman. With his will, he provided for both his daughters in ways that were suitable to their circumstances; Anne Shakespeare was already protected by dower rights in the houses and lands he had acquired. His funerary monument suggests that the man of 'small Latin and less Greek' in fact had some experience of an Oxford education. Evidences are that he commissioned the monument himself.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0192846302
ISBN-13
9780192846303
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Publication Name
Private Life of William Shakespeare
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
448 Pages
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Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
28.5 Oz
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"Lena Cowen Orlin examines a series of seminal moments in the writer's private life DEL [a] painstakingly detailed recontextualisation of evidence" -- David McInnis, Australian Book Review "The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures." -- James Shapiro, New York Times, "Lena Cowen Orlin examines a series of seminal moments in the writer's private life EL [a] painstakingly detailed recontextualisation of evidence" -- David McInnis, Australian Book Review "The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures." -- James Shapiro, New York Times, "...Orlin has made the simple point that there will always be novel discoveries to be found within the broader depths of Warwickshire archives. Hers is a methodology that should arm researchers when approaching any historical figure, and any archival record." -- Francesca Rhodes, Midland History journal"Lena Cowen Orlin's The Private Life of William Shakespeare sets a new standard for literary biography. Comparing the key documents of Shakespeare's biography to a wide array of similar documents from Shakespeare's contemporaries, Cowen Orlin manages to separate what is fact and what is probable about the life of England's most influential writer from what is mere speculation. Employing the most rigorous archival methodologies, her book challenges the shibboleths that have accumulated around the religion of Shakespeare's parents, his early marriage to the older Anne Hathaway, his life as a property owner, his will, and his death and monument [...] Early modern scholars will likely be reading and re-reading this book decades from now, perhaps arguing over this or that detail, but Cowen Orlin's approach will remain uncontested - a new benchmark for the field." -- Brian Lockey, on behalf of the Committee for the Roland Bainton Prize in Literature"After more than three hundred years of research on Shakespeare we are unlikely to find more documents relating to the monument, and the question of authorship may never be fully resolved. What could be done, however, is to conduct a full physical and technical examination, which would certainly help with questions of authenticity and alterations. This would involve dismantling the memorial and removing at least some of the later paintwork which now obscures its history. It would be an expensive process, requiring the services of fully qualified conservators, but it would surely not be beyond the resources of Shakespeare devotees around the world. Professor Orlin's highly valuable book would serve as inspiration for the project." -- Adam White, Church Monuments"Lena Cowen Orlin examines a series of seminal moments in the writer's private life ... [a] painstakingly detailed recontextualisation of evidence" -- David McInnis, Australian Book Review"The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures." -- James Shapiro, New York Times, "Lena Cowen Orlin's The Private Life of William Shakespeare sets a new standard for literary biography. Comparing the key documents of Shakespeare's biography to a wide array of similar documents from Shakespeare's contemporaries, Cowen Orlin manages to separate what is fact and what is probable about the life of England's most influential writer from what is mere speculation. Employing the most rigorous archival methodologies, her book challenges the shibboleths that have accumulated around the religion of Shakespeare's parents, his early marriage to the older Anne Hathaway, his life as a property owner, his will, and his death and monument [...] Early modern scholars will likely be reading and re-reading this book decades from now, perhaps arguing over this or that detail, but Cowen Orlin's approach will remain uncontested - a new benchmark for the field." -- Brian Lockey, on behalf of the Committee for the Roland Bainton Prize in Literature "After more than three hundred years of research on Shakespeare we are unlikely to find more documents relating to the monument, and the question of authorship may never be fully resolved. What could be done, however, is to conduct a full physical and technical examination, which would certainly help with questions of authenticity and alterations. This would involve dismantling the memorial and removing at least some of the later paintwork which now obscures its history. It would be an expensive process, requiring the services of fully qualified conservators, but it would surely not be beyond the resources of Shakespeare devotees around the world. Professor Orlin's highly valuable book would serve as inspiration for the project." -- Adam White, Church Monuments "Lena Cowen Orlin examines a series of seminal moments in the writer's private life EL [a] painstakingly detailed recontextualisation of evidence" -- David McInnis, Australian Book Review "The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures." -- James Shapiro, New York Times, "...Orlin has made the simple point that there will always be novel discoveries to be found within the broader depths of Warwickshire archives. Hers is a methodology that should arm researchers when approaching any historical figure, and any archival record." -- Francesca Rhodes, Midland History journal "Lena Cowen Orlin's The Private Life of William Shakespeare sets a new standard for literary biography. Comparing the key documents of Shakespeare's biography to a wide array of similar documents from Shakespeare's contemporaries, Cowen Orlin manages to separate what is fact and what is probable about the life of England's most influential writer from what is mere speculation. Employing the most rigorous archival methodologies, her book challenges the shibboleths that have accumulated around the religion of Shakespeare's parents, his early marriage to the older Anne Hathaway, his life as a property owner, his will, and his death and monument [...] Early modern scholars will likely be reading and re-reading this book decades from now, perhaps arguing over this or that detail, but Cowen Orlin's approach will remain uncontested - a new benchmark for the field." -- Brian Lockey, on behalf of the Committee for the Roland Bainton Prize in Literature "After more than three hundred years of research on Shakespeare we are unlikely to find more documents relating to the monument, and the question of authorship may never be fully resolved. What could be done, however, is to conduct a full physical and technical examination, which would certainly help with questions of authenticity and alterations. This would involve dismantling the memorial and removing at least some of the later paintwork which now obscures its history. It would be an expensive process, requiring the services of fully qualified conservators, but it would surely not be beyond the resources of Shakespeare devotees around the world. Professor Orlin's highly valuable book would serve as inspiration for the project." -- Adam White, Church Monuments "Lena Cowen Orlin examines a series of seminal moments in the writer's private life EL [a] painstakingly detailed recontextualisation of evidence" -- David McInnis, Australian Book Review "The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures." -- James Shapiro, New York Times, "The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures." -- James Shapiro, New York Times, "...Orlin has made the simple point that there will always be novel discoveries to be found within the broader depths of Warwickshire archives. Hers is a methodology that should arm researchers when approaching any historical figure, and any archival record." -- Francesca Rhodes, Midland History journal"Lena Cowen Orlin's The Private Life of William Shakespeare sets a new standard for literary biography. Comparing the key documents of Shakespeare's biography to a wide array of similar documents from Shakespeare's contemporaries, Cowen Orlin manages to separate what is fact and what is probable about the life of England's most influential writer from what is mere speculation. Employing the most rigorous archival methodologies, her book challenges the shibboleths that have accumulated around the religion of Shakespeare's parents, his early marriage to the older Anne Hathaway, his life as a property owner, his will, and his death and monument [...] Early modern scholars will likely be reading and re-reading this book decades from now, perhaps arguing over this or that detail, but Cowen Orlin's approach will remain uncontested - a new benchmark for the field." -- Brian Lockey, on behalf of the Committee for the Roland Bainton Prize in Literature"After more than three hundred years of research on Shakespeare we are unlikely to find more documents relating to the monument, and the question of authorship may never be fully resolved. What could be done, however, is to conduct a full physical and technical examination, which would certainly help with questions of authenticity and alterations. This would involve dismantling the memorial and removing at least some of the later paintwork which now obscures its history. It would be an expensive process, requiring the services of fully qualified conservators, but it would surely not be beyond the resources of Shakespeare devotees around the world. Professor Orlin's highly valuable book would serve as inspiration for the project." -- Adam White, Church Monuments"Lena Cowen Orlin examines a series of seminal moments in the writer's private life 'e¦ [a] painstakingly detailed recontextualisation of evidence" -- David McInnis, Australian Book Review"The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures." -- James Shapiro, New York Times, "After more than three hundred years of research on Shakespeare we are unlikely to find more documents relating to the monument, and the question of authorship may never be fully resolved. What could be done, however, is to conduct a full physical and technical examination, which would certainly help with questions of authenticity and alterations. This would involve dismantling the memorial and removing at least some of the later paintwork which now obscures its history. It would be an expensive process, requiring the services of fully qualified conservators, but it would surely not be beyond the resources of Shakespeare devotees around the world. Professor Orlin's highly valuable book would serve as inspiration for the project." -- Adam White, Church Monuments "Lena Cowen Orlin examines a series of seminal moments in the writer's private life EL [a] painstakingly detailed recontextualisation of evidence" -- David McInnis, Australian Book Review "The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures." -- James Shapiro, New York Times
Table of Content
Introduction: 26 April 15641. 23 January 1577: Shakespeare's Father2. 28 November 1582: Shakespeare's Wedding3. 4 May 1597: Shakespeare's Home4. 25 March 1616: Shakespeare's Will5. 25 April 1616: Shakespeare's MonumentList of AbbreviationsAppendix I. Shakespeare in the West MidlandsAppendix II. The Quiney PapersAppendix III. Shakespeare's Last WillAppendix IV. Shakespeare's Earlier WillAppendix V. The 'Shakespeare Type' of Funerary MonumentsAppendix VI. Shakespeare Documented
Topic
Shakespeare
Dewey Decimal
822.33
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
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