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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.

From Library Journal

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
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Shakespeare
A LIFE

PARK HONAN

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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First published 1998 First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 1999

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Honan, Park. Shakespeare: a life/ Park Honan. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Biography. 2. Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography. PR2894.H65 1998 822.3'3-dC21 98-22114 [B]

ISBN 0-19-282527-5

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Typeset in Galliard by Jayvee, Trivandrum, India Printed in Hong Kong

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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction
A Note on Conventions Used in the Text
I. A STRATFORD YOUTH
1.
BIRTH
Stratford -- Master Bretchgirdle's arrival -- The chamberlain's first son
2.
MOTHER OF THE CHILD
Mary Shakespeare at Henley Street --'Hic incepit pestis' -- Air and music
3.
JOHN SHAKESPEARE'S FORTUNES
In the bailiff's family -- Debts and a downfall
4.
TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL
A classroom -- Rhetoric at dawn -- The Lord of Misrule
5.
OPPORTUNITY AND NEED
'In the Countrey' -- Upon a promontory -- Returning
6.
LOVE AND EARLY MARRIAGE
Anne Hathaway and the Shottery fields -- A licence for lovers -- After
Davy Jones's show
II. ACTOR AND POET OF THE
LONDON STAGE
7.
TO LONDON -- AND THE AMPHITHEATRE PLAYERS
Streets and conduits -- Hirelings, repertory, and poets -- Crab the dog
8.
ATTITUDES
Marlowe, Kyd, and Shoreditch --'I am the sea': Titus Andronicus and
the Shrew -- The white rose of York
9.
THE CITY IN SEPTEMBER
Plague and prospects -- The 'waspish little worme' and 'upstart
Crow' -- Shagbag, The Comedy of Errors, and Love's Labour's Lost
10.
A PATRON, POEMS, AND COMPANY WORK
To the 'Earle of Southampton' -- The sonneteer -- Politics and King John
11.
A SERVANT OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN
Sharing with the Burbages -- Dreams and the doors of breath -- Falstaff,
Hal, and a Henriad

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12.
NEW PLACE AND THE COUNTRY
Gains and losses -- Two murders, New Place, and Mr Quiney's little
faults --'This is the Forest of Arden'
III. THE MATURITY OF GENIUS
13.
SOUTH OF JULIUS CAESAR'S TOWER
Ben Jonson's thumb -- Shylock, the troubled Merchant of Venice, and
Francis Meres -- Julius Caesar at the Globe
14.
HAMLET'S QUESTIONS
Poets' wars and 'little eyases' -- The Prince's world -- Investments
15.
THE KING'S SERVANTS
King James's arrival -- Pageantry, Measure for Measure, and All's Well
That Ends Well -- The 'plumd troops'
16.
THE TRAGIC SUBLIME
Jennet's guest and Marie's lodger -- Time's perpetuity: Macbeth and
King Lear -- Classical roots: Egypt, Rome, and Athens
IV. THE LAST PHASE
17.
TALES AND TEMPESTS
Susanna's marriage -- Lands of 'painful adventure' from Pericles to
The Tempest -- A fire at the Globe
18.
A GENTLEMAN'S CHOICES
Stratford friends and family affairs -- Making a will and the struggles of
the Harts --'For all time'
The Arden and Shakespeare Families
Descendants of Shakespeare's Nephew Thomas Hart (b. 1605) Down to
the Sale ofthe Birthplace in 1806
A Note on the Shakespeare Biographical Tradition and Sources for his Life
Notes
Index

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