William Shakespeare:

Definitive, concise, and very interesting ...from William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the "Very Interesting People" series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test o...

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Main Author: Holland, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford University Press 2007
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Very interesting people 1
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Summary:Definitive, concise, and very interesting ...from William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the "Very Interesting People" series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography".
Part of the "Very Interesting People" series, which provides biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures, this book talks about William Shakespeare.
Item Description:1. Background, early life, and marriage; 2. Making a career: early plays and poems; 3. Fame in London, prosperity in Stratford; 4. Public figure, King's Man; 5. Plays, poems, and profits; 6. Death and memorials; 7. Becoming a classic; 8. Eighteenth-century Shakepeare: England and overseas; 9. Romantic Shakespeare; 10. Nineteenth-century responses; 11. Modernist and multinational Shakespeare; 12. World Wide Will; 13. The universal author; Sources; Index
Physical Description:147 S.
ISBN:019921283X

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