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082			_a822.33 _bKAY
100			_aKay, Dennis
245			_aShakespeare : his life, work, and era
260			_aLondon : _bSidgwick & Jackson, _c1992.
300			_axiv, 368 p.
500			_aIncluding Index
505			_a1. 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
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aDramatists, English--Early modern--Biography
650			_aShakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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