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Like a monk in the scriptorium, that was where he spent most of his life, laboring to dispel the darkness that hid Shakespeare and his contemporaries from view. When his close friend the Shelley scholar newman White died suddenly, ...
Like a monk in the scriptorium, that was where he spent most of his life, laboring to dispel the darkness that hid Shakespeare and his contemporaries from view. When his close friend the Shelley scholar newman White died suddenly, ...
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This labor finished, he went back to Stratford and died. These are the bare bones and fleshing them out has been a problem to many. Henry James, confronting it, threw up his hands.
This labor finished, he went back to Stratford and died. These are the bare bones and fleshing them out has been a problem to many. Henry James, confronting it, threw up his hands.
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One chronicler traces them back a lot further, all the way to Adam, surnamed Shakespeare, who died in 14 14. This name has its decorum but the provenance seems unlikely. On the paternal side, the Shakespeares lived in Snitterfield, ...
One chronicler traces them back a lot further, all the way to Adam, surnamed Shakespeare, who died in 14 14. This name has its decorum but the provenance seems unlikely. On the paternal side, the Shakespeares lived in Snitterfield, ...
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lay the bloody ground of Evesham (12.65) where Simon de Montfort, greatest of the barons, died fighting King Henry III. At Bosworth Field, north and east, Henry VII, another maker and shaker, ended the Wars of the Roses in 1485.
lay the bloody ground of Evesham (12.65) where Simon de Montfort, greatest of the barons, died fighting King Henry III. At Bosworth Field, north and east, Henry VII, another maker and shaker, ended the Wars of the Roses in 1485.
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Others, blurting out the truth, died for opinion's sake or knocked their heads against the universe, like his contemporary Marlowe. Shakespeare, having surrogates and not prone to complaining, kept his opinions to himself.
Others, blurting out the truth, died for opinion's sake or knocked their heads against the universe, like his contemporary Marlowe. Shakespeare, having surrogates and not prone to complaining, kept his opinions to himself.
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 25 | |
Shadows of Himself | 79 |
WildGoose Chase | 107 |
A Motley to the View | 136 |
For Ted and Lloyd St Antoine | 155 |
The Dyers Hand | 163 |
Index | 195 |
Sailing to Illyria 65 | 65 |
Fools of Nature 101 | 101 |
PR2894 F65 2007 | 106 |
Treason in the Blood 134 | 134 |
The Wine of Life 160 | 160 |
Bravest at the Last 188 | 188 |
Unpathed Waters Undreamed Shores | 217 |
Journeys End | 247 |
Includes bibliographical references and index | 1 |
The Revolution of the Times 34 | 34 |
Index | 281 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare |
| Author | Russell A. Fraser |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 1412834031, 9781412834032 |
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