内容简介
From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.
Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
作者简介
Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame and former director of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon. He has published numerous books and articles on Shakespeare and his work and is Associate General Editor of the Oxford Drama Library.
目录
1. Background, early life, and marriage
2. Making a career: early plays and poems
3. Fame in London, prosperity in Stratford
4. Public figure, King's Man
5. Plays, poems, and profits
6. Death and memorials
7. Becoming a classic
8. Eighteenth-century Shakepeare: England and overseas
9. Romantic Shakespeare
10. Nineteenth-century responses
11. Modernist and multinational Shakespeare
12. World Wide Will
13. The universal author
Sources
Index
| 出版社 | Oxford University Press, USA |
|---|---|
| 作者 | Peter Holland |