Shakespeare and Biography

作者 David Bevington
出版社 Oxford University Press, USA
出版时间 2010年8月
ISBN 9780199586479

内容简介

ShakespeareandBiographyisnotanewbiographyofShakespeare.Instead,itisastudyofwhatbiographershavesaidaboutShakespeare,fromthefirstformalbiographyintheearly18thcenturybyNicholasRowetoStephenGreenblatt,JamesShapiro,JonathanBate,GermaineGreer,KatherineDuncan-Jones,ParkHonan,ReneWeis,andotherswhohavewrittenrecentbiographicalaccountsofEngland'sgreatestwriter.Theemphasisisonwhatsortofissuesthesebiographershavefoundespeciallyinterestinginrelationtosexandgender,politics,religion,pessimism,misanthropy,jealousy,aging,familyrelationships,theendofacareer,theendoflife.HowhasShakespeare'scontemplationoftheseissueschangedandgrown,andinwhatwaysdothosechangesreflectnewculturaldevelopmentsinourworldasitcontinuestoreinterpretShakespeare?

作者简介

DavidBevingtonisthePhyllisFayHortonDistinguishedServiceProfessorintheHumanitiesattheUniversityofChicago,wherehehastaughtsince1967.HehaspublishedwidelyonShakespeareandhiscontemporaries.HisrecentbooksincludeTheSevenAgesofHumanExperience(BlackwellPublishing,2005),co-authoredwithAnneMarieWelshandMichaelL.Greenwald,Shakespeare:Script,Stage,Screen(PearsonLongman,2006),ThisWideandUniversalTheater:Shakespeare'sPlaysinProduction,ThenandNow(UniversityofChicagoPress,2007)andShakespeare'sIdeas(Wiley-Blackwell,2008).HeisthesenioreditoroftheRevelsStudentEditions,theRevelsPlays,andoftheCambridgeEditionoftheWorksofBenJonson.HeisalsosenioreditoroftheNortonAnthologyofRenaissanceDrama,2002.

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