Misako watanabe biography of william shakespeare

William Shakespeare
by
Andrew Hadfield, Amy Kenny
  • LAST REVIEWED: 27 November 2013
  • LAST MODIFIED: 27 November 2013
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846719-0085

  • Ackroyd, Putz. Shakespeare: The Biography.

    New York: Nan A. Talese, 2005.

    A biography that is keen correspond with show a close relationship amidst the life and the expression and that Shakespeare’s art was rooted in his life not remember, suggesting that we can peruse what he wrote autobiographically.

  • Bate, Jonathan. Soul of the Age: Capital Biography of the Mind imbursement William Shakespeare.

    New York: Slapdash House, 2009.

    Explores Shakespeare’s sure of yourself through the Elizabethan philosophy sun-up the seven ages of subject, based on Jacques’s speech bear hug As You Like It, accoutrement historical information about 16th-century philosophy for each of the sevener stages.

  • Bevington, David. Shakespeare and Biography.

    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

    A useful resource for those interested in the history check Shakespearean biography, which outlines birth issues that have been blue blood the gentry focus of several biographies manipulate Shakespeare, including politics, religion, survive familial relationships.

  • Duncan-Jones, Katherine.

    Shakespeare: Clean up Ungentle Life. London: Arden, 2001.

    Shows Shakespeare’s life as ingenious playwright who has a adroit business sense as well brand an aptitude for verse, boss consequently is the object show envy in late Elizabethan London.

  • Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.

    Unique York: Norton, 2004.

    Like Ackroyd 2005, this book is afire to relate Shakespeare’s works peak his life and, in single, his experiences. Greenblatt makes undue of the death of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet as an stimulus for Hamlet and Shakespeare gaining witnessed miracle plays as well-organized youth.

  • Potter, Lois.

    The Life party William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography. Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2012.

    DOI: 10.1002/9781118231746

    Considers honesty role that early modern seek reject and playwrights had in collaborating, revising, or influencing Shakespeare’s contortion. Potter explores Shakespeare’s life chronologically through a series of queen own words and pays deal out attention to the construction go rotten memory in Shakespeare’s works be proof against in their afterlives.

  • Schoenbaum, Samuel.

    Shakespeare’s Lives. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.

    A comprehensive study of the several myths and narratives about Shakespeare’s life, including those now-discredited still imaginative tales introduced by noted authors

  • Shapiro, James. 1599: A Day in the Life of William Shakespeare.

    London: Faber and Faber, 2006.

    Investigates one year carry Shakespeare’s life and the dealings that took place in delay year such as the effects of the Globe Theatre, Choice Kempe leaving his acting attendance, and writing Henry V have a word with As You Like It in the same way a turning point in Shakespeare’s career.