SHAKESPEARE, NATIONAL POET-PLAYWRIGHT by Patrick Cheney ( 9780521839235 )

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SHAKESPEARE, NATIONAL POET-PLAYWRIGHT

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Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521839238

ISBN 13:

9780521839235

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 November, 2004

Pages:

336

Description:

An important book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist.

Synopsis:

Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright is an important book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as 'a man of the theatre' by recovering his original standing as an early modern author: he is a working dramatist who composes some of the most extraordinary poems in English. The book accounts for this form of authorship by reconstructing the historical preconditions for its emergence, in England as in Europe, including the building of the commercial theatres and the consolidation of the printing press. Cheney traces the literary origin to Shakespeare's favourite author, Ovid, who wrote the Amores and Metamorphoses alongside the tragedy Medea. Cheney also examines Shakespeare's literary relations with his contemporary authors Edmund Spenser and Christopher Marlowe. The book concentrates on Shakespeare's freestanding poems, but makes frequent reference to the plays, and ranges widely through the work of other Renaissance writers.

Illustrations:

6 b/w illus. 2 tables

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

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Returnable

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