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Shakespeare : A Life:

A Life (Google eBook)
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Oxford University Press, Oct 29, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 480 pages
In the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date narrative of Shakespeare's life ever written, Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright. The young poet's relationships, his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters, are seen in a new light, illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions and concerns. Park Honan examines the world of the playing companies -- the power of patronage, theatrical conditions, and personal rivalries -- to reveal the relationship between the man and the writing, and using previously unpublished material explores the causes of Shakespeare's success; Stratford childhood, his parents' capabilities, and his preparations for a London career. Shakespeare: A Life casts new light on the complexity and fascination of Shakespeare's life and his extraordinary development as an artist.
  

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In the admittedly strange world of Shakespeare biography, the only writer worth his salt is Park Honan (I might add Duncan Jones to the list, but I don't think Ungentle Shakespeare is a biography, per ... Read full review

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*Park Honan, Shakespeare: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) ... *Garry O'Connor, William Shakespeare: A Life (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991; ...
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I'm still quite fond, for example, of Park Honan's magisterial Shakespeare: A Life, from 1999, and James Shapiro's A Year in the Life of William ...
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Shakespeare, A life. Park Honan. This is the orthodox biography which is most often quoted to me. "Read Honan and you will see the light;" I am told. ...
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Lord Strange and the Earl of Southampton, she thinks, were pillars of Catholicism, 6 whereas Park Honan, in his recent Shakespeare: A Life, ...
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About the author (1998)


Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning, and lives in the United Kingdom.

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