Globe : life in Shakespeare's London

The Resource Globe : life in Shakespeare's London

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Globe : life in Shakespeare's London

Title remainder

life in Shakespeare's London

Statement of responsibility

Catharine Arnold

Language

eng

Summary

'Arnold is at her best in comparing the modern theatre with the gross conditions in which Shakespeare's contemporaries watched proceedings.' The Times The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, is inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came with the founding of the Globe in 1599, the patronage of the Queen herself and the golden age of Elizabethan drama. On the shadow side, fatal political intrigue meant tragedy for contemporaries Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, while the city struggled against the omnipresent threat of riots, rebellions and the devastating plague. Catharine Arnold has created a vivid portrait of Shakespeare and his London from contemporary sources, combining a novelist's eye for detail and a historian's grasp of Shakespeare's unique contribution to the development of the English theatre. No mere work of literary criticism or biography, this is a portrait of Shakespeare, London, the man and the myth

Cataloging source

Illustrations

illustrations

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index present

LC call number

DA680

LC item number

.A745 2015b

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

handbooks

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The work Globe : life in Shakespeare's London represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.