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A Life of William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9781108048194 | 1108048196
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 5/15/2012

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SummaryTable of Contents
A biography first published in 1898, and regarded for many years as the most reliable account of Shakespeare's life.

Sir Sidney Lee (1859-1926) was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. This biography, first published in 1898, was an immediate popular success and was regarded for much of the twentieth century as the most reliable account of Shakespeare's life then available.
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Preface
Parentage and birth
Childhood, education, and marriage
The farewell to Stratford
On the London stage
Early dramatic work
The first appeal to the reading public
The sonnets and their literary history
The borrowed conceits of the sonnets
The patronage of the Earl of Southampton
The supposed story of intrigue in the sonnets
The development of dramatic power
The practical affairs of life
Maturity of genius
The highest themes of tragedy
The latest plays
The close of life
Survivors and descendants
Autographs, portraits, and memorials
Bibliography
Posthumous reputation
General estimate
Appendix
The sources of biographical knowledge
The Bacon-Shakespeare controversy
The youthful career of the Earl of Southampton
The Earl of Southampton as a literary patron
The true history of Thomas Thorpe and 'Mr. W. H.'
'Mr. William Herbert'
Shakespeare and the Earl of Pembroke
The 'Will' sonnets
The vogue of the Elizabethan sonnet, 1594âÇô7
Bibliographical note on the sonnet in France, 1550âÇô1600
Index
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