《威廉·莎士比亚》:Almost four hundred years after his death, phenomenal interest inShakespeare's life and work persists. The breadth of his intellect, the theatri-cality of his plays, the beauty of his poetry, and the precision of his languageare among the many positive reasons for this. The image of Shakespearedepicted by Martin Droeshout on the title-page of the First Folio of his playsis one of the most distinctive and widely recognised portraits of a literaryfigure anywhere. Yet Shakespeare himself is often held to be an enigma-theusual facets of biographical accounts, such as what he liked to eat, or whetherhe knew Queen Elizabeth I are irretrievably missing.The lack of substantial evidence for some crucial aspects of Shakespeare's lifemay serve further to enhance&is mystique. But as Dominic Shellard shows inthis lively and fluent account, by viewmg the playwright in the context ofcontemporary Elizabethan politics and the business of the theatre, we knowmore of his existence than is often generally thought, providing a back-ground against which Shakespeare'sliterary output can be assessed.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Elizabethan England
Stratford
Theatre Comes of Age
London to 1594
The Lord Chamberlains Men
James I and Jacobean England to 1616
The Kings Men
Retirement
Not of an age,but for all time
Chronology
Further Readin
Index
作者:(英国) 谢拉德 (Shellard.D.)
Dominic Shellard is Head of Dramaat the University of Sheffield. Hisother publications include BritishTheatre Since 1945 (Yale UniversityPress, forthcoming) and The TheatreCriticism of Harold Hobson (KeeleUniversity Press, 19951.