Download PDF Shakespeare : The Writer and His Work
Shakespeare : The Writer and His WorkDownload PDF Shakespeare : The Writer and His Work
- Author: Stanley W Wells
- Date: 31 Dec 1978
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Book Format: Paperback::104 pages
- ISBN10: 0684159848
- ISBN13: 9780684159843
- Dimension: 148.6x 214.1x 18.5mm::358.34g
- Download: Shakespeare : The Writer and His Work
Seven years after his death, Shakespeare's friends and colleagues published the first collected edition of his works, known as the First Folio. A dedicatory poem playwright Ben Jonson in that book declares Shakespeare "not of an age, but for all time". In Shakespeare After All, Marjorie Garber -professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University -gives us a magisterial work of criticism, authoritative and engaging, based on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years. According to a host of Websites and books, William Shakespeare was called upon to add his artistic touch to the English translation of the Bible done at the behest of King James, which was finished in 1611. As proof for this idea, proponents point to Psalm 46, and allege that Shakespeare slipped his name into the text. Here is how the story goes. William Shakespeare in World Literature Like many of his contemporaries, he wrote much of his work in blank verse, the unrhymed iambic pentameter lines first used in English Chaucer almost The Shakespeare community breathed a collective gasp earlier this week, when Dennis McCarthy,
