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Shakespeare's Muse

2007 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2007
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 292/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Muse by : John O'Meara

Download or read book Shakespeare's Muse written by John O'Meara. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent interest in who Shakespeare's Muse may have been prompts one to come forth to dispel the drastically simplistic notions that have been brought forward. In this essay John O'Meara suggests where our concern with Shakespeare should actually lie or what form of Muse we can suppose it was that commanded his development the way it did. Shakespeare was fated for a certain experience from which he could not extricate himself, even if he had wished to. Highlighted is his struggle with Martin Luther's injunction to imagine human depravity to the fullest, with which O'Meara compares the route travelled by Christopher Marlowe. The challenge was laid down to Shakespeare to imagine the worst of human tragedy, which finally focuses for him in the precipitated death of the loved one. But it testifies to the enduring power of Shakespeare's Muse that She has 'borne' this death with him. "I find myself very much in sympathy with your general approach." Stanley Wells, general editor of The Oxford Shakespeare and formerly Director of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.

Shakespeare's Muse

2007-03-05 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2007-03-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Muse by : John O'Meara

Download or read book Shakespeare's Muse written by John O'Meara. This book was released on 2007-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent interest in who Shakespeare's Muse may have been prompts one to come forth to dispel the drastically simplistic notions that have been brought forward. In this essay John O'Meara suggests where our concern with Shakespeare should actually lie or what form of Muse we can suppose it was that commanded his development the way it did. Shakespeare was fated for a certain experience from which he could not extricate himself, even if he had wished to. Highlighted is his struggle with Martin Luther's injunction to imagine human depravity to the fullest, with which O'Meara compares the route travelled by Christopher Marlowe. The challenge was laid down to Shakespeare to imagine the worst of human tragedy, which finally focuses for him in the precipitated death of the loved one. But it testifies to the enduring power of Shakespeare's Muse that She has 'borne' this death with him "I find myself very much in sympathy with your general approach." -Stanley Wells, general editor of The Oxford Shakespeare and formerly Director of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England

Emilia

2023-07-27 Performing Arts
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Release : 2023-07-27
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Emilia by : Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Download or read book Emilia written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm. This book was released on 2023-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A spicy work of biographical conjecture ... It's also a rousing reminder of the countless creative women who have been written out of history or have had to fight relentlessly to make themselves heard.' EVENING STANDARD 'The great virtue of Lloyd Malcolm's speculative history lies in its passion and anger: it ends with a blazing address to the audience that is virtually a call to arms. It is throughout, however, a highly theatrical piece ... In rescuing Emilia from the shades, [the play] gives her dramatic life and polemical potency.' GUARDIAN The little we know of Emilia Bassano Lanier (1569 - 1645) is that she may have been the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets, mistress of Lord Chamberlain, one of the first English female poets to be published, a mother, teacher who founded a school for women, and radical feminist with North African ancestry. Living at a time when women had such limited opportunities, Emilia Lanier is therefore a fascinating subject for this speculative history. In telling her story, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm represents the stories of women everywhere whose narratives have been written out of history. Originally commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe with an all-female cast, Emilia is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Elizabeth Schafer, Professor of Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Dark Aemilia

2015-04-01 Fiction
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Release : 2015-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Dark Aemilia by : Sally O'Reilly

Download or read book Dark Aemilia written by Sally O'Reilly. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright; Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 147 In the boldest imagining of the era since Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth, a finalist for the Italian Premio del Castello del Terriccio, this spellbinding novel of witchcraft, poetry, and passion, brings to life Aemilia Lanyer, the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's Sonnets—the playwright's muse and his one true love. The daughter of a Venetian musician but orphaned as a young girl, Aemilia Bassano grows up in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming the Queen's favorite. She absorbs a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a striking young woman with a sharp mind and a quick tongue. Now brilliant, beautiful, and highly educated, she becomes mistress of Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain and Queen's cousin. But her position is precarious; when she falls in love with court playwright William Shakespeare, her fortunes change irrevocably. A must-read for fans of Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Sarah Dunant (The Birth of Venus), Sally O'Reilly's richly atmospheric novel compellingly re-imagines the struggles for power, recognition, and survival in the brutal world of Elizabethan London. She conjures the art of England's first professional female poet, giving us a character for the ages—a woman who is ambitious and intelligent, true to herself, and true to her heart.

Shakespeare's Plays

1847
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Release : 1847
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Plays by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book Shakespeare's Plays written by William Shakespeare. This book was released on 1847. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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