Description
Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth’s reign. Originally published in 1933 and republished in 1958, this great work is an imagining, in plain narrative, of the life of Shakespeare backed with evidence of the history of the stage. Whatever wider significances modern critics distill from Shakespeare’s plays, it remains an elementary fact that he wrote plays to interest and entertain his contemporaries and this book takes a look at the immediate interests of his audience and how his work responded to them.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Ann Arbor Paperbacks Edition, G. B. Harrison; Preface to the First Edition, G. B. Harrison; Chapter I The Upstart Crow, G. B. Harrison; Chapter II Education of a Dramatist, G. B. Harrison; Chapter III Experiments, G. B. Harrison; Chapter IV The Passing of an Eclipse, G. B. Harrison; Chapter V Maturity, G. B. Harrison; Chapter VI The New Comedy, G. B. Harrison; Chapter VII The Globe, G. B. Harrison; Chapter VIII The Lost Leader, G. B. Harrison; Chapter IX Tumultuous Interludes, G. B. Harrison; Chapter X The Tragedy of Hamlet, G. B. Harrison; Chapter XI End of an Epoch, G. B. Harrison; bm-Chapter 1 Commentary, G. B. Harrison;
