Chapter in the Early Life of Shakespeare - Polesworth in Arden

Klappentext This 1926 book argues that Shakespeare spent his formative years at Polesworth Hall in the Forest of Arden. Zusammenfassung This thought-provoking volume, published in 1926, explores whether Shakespeare might have spent key formative years – perhaps as a page boy – at Polesworth Hall in the Forest of Arden, alongside the poet Michael Drayton. Arthur Gray investigates the influence of Sir Henry Goodere's 'Polesworth Circle' on the young Shakespeare. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The problem stated; 2. The Marlowe fiction; 3. The Greenwood theory; 4. The Stratford legend; 5. Does Shakespeare rail? 6. William Shakespeare, gentleman; 7. Concerning genius; 8. Stratford fact and fable; 9. The flight to London; 10. Shakespeare's silence about Stratford; 11. Concerning Arden; 12. Of poets, patronage and pages; 13. What happened in 1572; 14. Polesworth; 15. Shakespeare in north Warwickshire; 16. Shakespeare's road to London; 17. Michael Drayton; 18. The Polesworth circle; 19. The Gooderes; 20. The sonnets; 21. Southampton; 22. Warwickshire scenes in Shakespeare's youth; 23. The last days.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Arthur Gray
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.07.2009
• EAN: 9781108005579
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00557-9
• Seiten: 156
• Serie: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Kunst, Literatur > Biographien, Autobiographien