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Shakespeare Without a Life
Engelsk Hardback
Shakespeare Without a Life
Engelsk Hardback

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A fascinating account of how Shakespeare''s works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare''s biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry. For almost two centuries after his death, Shakespeare had no biography. The makings of one were not available. No chronology had been devised by which to coordinate the events in his life with the writing of his works. Nor was there an archive of primary materials on which to base a life. And the only work by Shakespeare written in the first person, the Sonnets, had yet to be critically edited and incorporated into the canon. Without a biography, how could Shakespeare have been valued and understood?In Shakespeare without a Life, Margreta de Grazia looks at aspects of Shakespeare''s reception between 1600 and 1800 that have been all but lost to the now still prevailing biographical impulse. It recovers the anecdote as a form of literary criticism, retrieves the ancient category of genre as the canon''s organizing rubric, demonstrates how the quest for authentic documents invalidated other forms of literary record, and reveals how the desire to forge connections between Shakespeare''s life and the Sonnets occluded his self-presentation as the ''deceasèd I'' of a posthumous poet.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9780198812548
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
019881254X
Udg. Dato:
27 apr 2023
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
143mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
27 apr 2023
Forfatter(e):
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