TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kay, Dennis 
TI  - Shakespeare : his life, work, and era
SN  - 9780283998782
U1  - 822.33 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - London
PB  - Sidgwick & Jackson
KW  - Dramatists, English--Early modern--Biography
KW  - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
N1  - Including Index; 1. Stratford and the Shakespeares
2. Upbringing in Stratford
3. The 'Lost Years'
4. From the Country to the City
5. 'The only Shake-scene in a Country'
6. The Plague and the Poems
7. 'Right Happy and Copious Industry'
8. Art and Politics
9. 'The Arte and Faculty of playinge', 1603-6
10. Three Classical Plays
11. 'A world ransom'd, or one destroy'd,: The Romances, 1608-12
12. 'Let's go off, and bear us like the time': The Last Years
N2  - This new biography looks beyond the established facts of Shakespeare's life and traces how the events of his era affected the way he lived, thought and wrote. Shakespeare emerged as a survivor, never completely alienating either his political masters or his audience. Discussion of the plays, poems and sonnets is interwoven with relevant moments in both Shakespeare's life and his age: the financial ruin of his father; his marriage to an older woman; the ravages of the plague on both his family and theatre audiences; the pressure of royal patronage; the Essex rebellion and the final family disgrace just before his death
ER  -