{"product_id":"9781119605218","title":"The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Life of the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Life of the Author: William Shakespeare\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAnna Beer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William Shakespeare \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife of the Author: William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering readers a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is written using scholarly citations and references, but with an approachable style suitable for readers with little or no background knowledge of Shakespeare or the era in which he lived. \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLife of the Author: William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e asks provocative questions about the playwright-poet’s preoccupation with gender roles and sexuality, and explores why it is so challenging to ascertain his political and religious allegiances. Conservative or radical? Misogynist or proto-feminist? A lover of men or women or both? Patriot or xenophobe? This introduction to Shakespeare’s life and works offers no simple answers, but recognizes a man intensely responsive to the world around him, a playwright willing and able to collaborate with others and able to collaborate with others, and, of course, his exceptional, perhaps unique, contribution to literature in English.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book covers the entirety of William Shakespeare’s life (1564-1616), taking him from his childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon to his success in the theatre world of London and then back to his home town and comfortable retirement. \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e sets his achievement as a writer within the dangerous, vibrant cultural world that was Elizabethan and Jacobean England, revealing a writer’s life of frequent collaboration, occasional crisis, but always of profound creativity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerfect for undergraduate students in Literature, Drama, Theatre Studies, History, and Cultural Studies courses, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLife of the Author: William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e will also earn a place in the libraries of students interested in Gender Studies and Creative Writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Beer,\u003c\/b\u003e Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford is a cross-disciplinary author and researcher with a focus on literature, history, music, and creative writing. She is the author of several biographies, including \u003ci\u003eJohn Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17 May 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781119605218\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e192\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11.2\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379973615756,"sku":"9781119605218","price":25.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781119605218.jpg?v=1780239083","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781119605218","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}