William Shakespeare A Compact Documentary Life

by Schoenbaum, S.

• ISBN13: 9780195051612
• ISBN10: 0195051610
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-05-14
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

Covering four hundred years of Shakespeare scholarship, S. Schoenbaum's William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life was greeted as "a master-piece" by The New York Review of Books and called "our best life of Shakespeare" by the Guardian (Manchester). This compact edition makes the resources of the world's greatest Shakespeare collections accessible to all readers who have been unable to consult the magnificent original volume. The new book contains the full text, refined and amplified, of the parent volume, and fifty of the documents reproduced in smaller format. Schoenbaum has incorporated new material into his narrative, including an eyewitness account, in harrowing detail, of a murder that may have occurred in New Place, the great house Shakespeare was to buy in Stratford in 1597. Book jacket.

Author Biography

S. Schoenbaum, Director of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, is the author of Shakespeare's Lives and Shakespeare: The Globe and the World.

Table of Contents

Stratford Town and Stratford Church	3	(11)
The Shakespeares: From Snitterfield to Stratford	14	(9)
Offspring	23	(7)
Rise and Fall	30	(15)
John Shakespeare's Spiritual Testament	45	(10)
Faith and Knowledge	55	(18)
Early Employment and Marriage	73	(22)
The Lost Years	95	(23)
London and the Theatres	118	(25)
The Upstart Crow	143	(16)
Plays, Plague, and a Patron	159	(25)
The Lord Chamberlain's Man	184	(36)
A Gentleman of Means	220	(29)
His Majesty's Servant	249	(29)
Stratford Again	278	(42)
Postscript	320	(9)
Notes	329	(30)
Acknowledgments of Facsimiles	359	(2)
Index	361