Shakespeare: Biography

Part 4, Lecture 5: Introduction to Shakespeare

Introduction to Shakespeare's works and life, looking at how his works have been performed, interpreted and adapted from his own lifetime up to the 1990s

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research.

Contains over 3,800 entries on mass media and popular culture works related to the writings of William Shakespeare, organized chronologically within play and media categories; media include cartoons and comic books, film adaptations, film spin-offs and citations, pop music, literature and genre fiction, radio, U.S. and U.K. television, and theater.

In creating works such as Hamlet and King Lear, Shakespeare became the quintessential dramatist of the Western canon.

Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Dickens are just a few of the London authors who have come to represent the essences of English literatureThis is an electronic version of the original edition of this Bloom's Literary Places title, co

Easily the most respected, revered, and researched writer of all time, William Shakespeare and his works have forever changed the face of literature, inspiring playful discussion and heated debate for hundreds of years.

Easily the most respected, revered, and researched author of all time, William Shakespeare and his works have forever changed the face of literature, inspiring playful discussion and heated debate for hundreds of years.