The life, the works, and the influence of the world`s most famous dramatist
Based upon the entry in the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Definitive, concise, and very interesting...
Contents
1. Background, early life, and marriage
2. Making a career: early plays and poems
3. Fame in London, prosperity in Stratford
4. Public figure, King`s Man
5. Plays, poems, and profits
6. Death and memorials
7. Becoming a classic
8. Eighteenth-century Shakepeare: England and overseas
9. Romantic Shakespeare
10. Nineteenth-century responses
11. Modernist and multinational Shakespeare
12. World Wide Will
13. The universal author
Sources
Index