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So little evidence of Shakespeares life exists that biographers have had to resort to sometimes far-fetched guesswork to flesh out a vivid chronicle of his days. Many of them would benefit from the healthy dose of common sense evident in Honans latest critical study. As a leading biographer of Robert Browning and Jane Austen, Honan brings a sensible eye to the Sisyphean task of sifting through what is now called the Shakespeare Industry. Synthesizing documentary material on Renaissance England with the latest scholarship?be it Helen Vendler on the sonnets or Leeds Barroll on politics and plague in Elizabethan London?Honan attempts to link, perhaps a little too closely, the Bards life experiences with his literary representations. In an examination of Shakespeares schooling, Honan refutes the oft-cited remark that he had small Latin and less Greek and finds analogies to his student years in such plays as The Merry Wives of Windsor and Hamlet. Honan vibrantly depicts Renaissance urban life, where the theatre [was] a quick-paced, disenchanting funfair; with jigs, dancing, dumb-shows and clowns acts interlaced with drama. Despite his insistence on historical context, however, Honan reserves most of his critical energies for the poets high tragedies. In Hamlet, pathos arises from his heros idealization of a prior normalcy; Othello contains a flawless structure of feeling; and Antony and Cleopatra investigates non-literal truth, in myth, fable, and implicit connections between historical epochs. Studies of Shakespeare frequently reflect hotly contested trends in literary criticism; this biographys value, by contrast, lies in its responsibly researched, unflinching look at what is indisputably the artists real achievement: Far from soothing an audience, Honan writes, Shakespeare depicts human nature in ways that are at once truthful and deeply troubling.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Honan (English, emeritus, Univ. of Leeds), author of biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning, aims to create the most up-to-date and accurate narrative of the bards life yet penned. Dismissive of other writers who, in his view, have imagined moments and motives in Shakespeares life, he tries to rely on documentary and contextualized fact. The result is a blow-by-blow account of Shakespeares life from birth to death, with some attention paid to the historical, political, and social world Shakespeare inhabited. Extensive notes and a study of the biographical writings on Shakespeare to date conclude the work. At times this biography is overwritten for its target audience, the general public, and it can be slow reading. However, as the most up-to-date biography of Shakespeare, and certainly one of the most complete linear narratives, it is useful and therefore recommended for academic and larger public libraries.?Neal Wyatt, Chesterfield Cty. P.L., VA
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