Shakespeare will have his day

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 26, 2004 ;     606 words ...Shakespeare will have his day Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. By Stephen Greenblatt. Norton. 406 pages. $26.95. Stephen Greenblatt's "Will in the World: How Shakespeare...

Shakespeare, William

A Dictionary of Shakespeare;      113 words ...Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) The principal entries relating directly to his life and career are: APOCRYPHAL WORKS ; ARMS, SHAKESPEARE'S ; AUTHORSHIP ; BAPTISM, SHAKESPEARE'S ; BIRTHDAY, SHAKESPEARE'S ; BIRTHPLACE, SHAKESPEARE'S ; BLACKFRIARS GATEHOUSE ; CHRONOLOGY ; CRABTREE...

Dramatist of forgiveness.("The Age of Shakespeare," "Shakespeare" and "The...

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE. By FRANK KERMODE. Modern Library. 214pp. $21.95. SHAKESPEARE. By MICHAEL WOOD. Basic. 352pp. $29.95. THE...CHRISTIANITY AND JUDGMENT IN THE WORLD OF SHAKESPEARE. By CRAIG BERNTHAL. ISI. 316pp. $25. UNLIKE...

Shakespeare and his satellites Jonathan Bate praises a compendium of...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ...After Shakespeare: An Anthology ed by John Gross Oxford...99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 "SHAKESPEARE," WROTE the 19th-century German intellectual...after has followed from him. So why Shakespeare? Why not his friend Ben Jonson or one...

"No more yielding than a dream": the construction of Shakespeare in The...

College Literature;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Shakespeare the man holds a uniquely ambiguous position in American...Like a few other authors (Jane Austen springs to mind), Shakespeare's works continue to be available for use by popular...unlike other authors who maintain a popular presence. Shakespeare himself also circulates in popular and popularized ...

Historical Works of William Shakespeare: General Biography and Criticism

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ...Shakespeare, William Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critic: Nugent, F. M. Affiliation: Professor Of English, Seton Hall University General Biography and Criticism: Alexander, P., Shakespeare's Life and Art, New York, 1961. Development of Shakespeare from apprentice to mature artist. Brooks, C., ...

Theatre Shakespeare was not a solitary star but part of a constellation of...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Shakespeare & Co BY STANLEY WELLS ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 25...to own. Hazlitt's book was the first attempt to place Shakespeare in his cultural and theatrical context for the benefit...healthy in the capable hands of Professor Stanley Wells. Shakespeare was not a solitary star, but part of a ...

Historical Works of William Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Life

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ...Shakespeare, William Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critic: Brennen, Joseph...Chairman, Department Of English, Fordham University Shakespeare's Life The dramatist was born at Stratford-on-Avon in 1564, the third child (the oldest son) of John and Mary Shakespeare. He must certainly have attended the grammar ...

SHAKESPEARE'S UPS AND DOWNS

The Boston Globe;  September 20, 1989 ;     604 words ...REINVENTING SHAKESPEARE. A Cultural History, from the Restoration...461 pp. $29.95. Every era gets the Shakespeare it deserves. Gary Taylor's brilliant...of the transformations of William Shakespeare's reputation through the ages incorporates...

An intellectual magpie.(Books)(Shakespeare the Thinker)(Book review)

Commonweal;  January 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Shakespeare the Thinker A. D. Nuttall Yale University Press, $30, 448 pp. If asked, most people would surely agree that Shakespeare was a thinker. Even the generally received picture of Shakespeare, featuring that prominent forehead, emphasizes his braininess. Still, the precise...

Historical Works of William Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Life And Career

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ...Shakespeare, William Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critic: Barasch, Frances K. Affiliation: Assistant Professor Of English, City University Of New York Shakespeare's Life And Career: Very few facts are known about Shakespeare's early life but there is enough information about his adult career to enable us to...

That Shakespeare: what a character

The Independent - London;  June 28, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Putting Shakespeare on stage is a global and unending activity - if by "Shakespeare" you mean the works of. Putting Shakespeare the man on stage is a less widespread practice, though one that's not as uncommon as you might suppose. Tomorrow, at...

Shakespeare and the American Nation.(Book review)

CLIO;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Shakespeare and the American Nation. By Kim C. Sturgess. Cambridge: Cambridge University...2004. vii + 234 pages. The blurb on its dust jacket claims that Kim Sturgess's Shakespeare and the American Nation will tell us why so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright, how ...

Shakespeare in Japan.(Book review)

Asian Theatre Journal;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...SHAKESPEARE IN JAPAN. By Tetsuo Kishi and Graham Bradshaw. New York: Continuum, 2005. xii + 153 pp. Hardcover, $120.00. The meeting of the Fifth World Shakespeare Congress in Tokyo in 1991 was a watershed in the study of Shakespeare's reception in Japan, since not only was this the first occasion for the ...

Shakespeare: The Biography.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(Book...

History Today;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Shakespeare The Biography Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus 560pp...To dig the dust enclosed here', begins the epitaph on Shakespeare's tomb, 'Blest be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones.' As Shakespeare's biographers have found, he is equally reluctant to...