Shakespeare and the Poet's LifeShakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare—or any poet of the time—ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating. |
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... the illuminating intersections between the courtier's and the courting poet's lives. Central here is a canvass of the half-dozen roles of the poet to be found in Shakespeare's imaginary courts. The chapter closes with a look at the.
... the illuminating intersections between the courtier's and the courting poet's lives. Central here is a canvass of the half-dozen roles of the poet to be found in Shakespeare's imaginary courts. The chapter closes with a look at the.
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... roles of the poet. Chapter 5 shows, through close consultation with the Young Man sonnets, that the private goals and circumstances of a neophyte suitor are deeply ingrained in these poems. G.K. Hunter has called Spenser's Amoretti in a ...
... roles of the poet. Chapter 5 shows, through close consultation with the Young Man sonnets, that the private goals and circumstances of a neophyte suitor are deeply ingrained in these poems. G.K. Hunter has called Spenser's Amoretti in a ...
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... and status more directly by casting back over the poem for hints that among Venus's protean identities is that of the poet-at-court. An apt point of departure is George Puttenham's description of the poet's role in The Arte.
... and status more directly by casting back over the poem for hints that among Venus's protean identities is that of the poet-at-court. An apt point of departure is George Puttenham's description of the poet's role in The Arte.
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... role reversal of Venus and Adonis. Venus is emphatically Puttenham's pleader: “impatience chokes her pleading tongue” (217); “lovesick love by pleading may be blest” (328); “Her pleading hath deserv'd a greater fee” (609). And Adonis is ...
... role reversal of Venus and Adonis. Venus is emphatically Puttenham's pleader: “impatience chokes her pleading tongue” (217); “lovesick love by pleading may be blest” (328); “Her pleading hath deserv'd a greater fee” (609). And Adonis is ...
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... role of Sidney's “reason”—hears only “words fond ware.” The offer (line 8) to keep the verse in aristocratic private circulation is, of course, too late for the extrovert goddess. Such an offer was perhaps also unthinkable to a young ...
... role of Sidney's “reason”—hears only “words fond ware.” The offer (line 8) to keep the verse in aristocratic private circulation is, of course, too late for the extrovert goddess. Such an offer was perhaps also unthinkable to a young ...
Contents
Chameleon Muse The Poets Life in Shakespeares Courts | |
Fearful Meditation The Young Man and the Poets Life | |
Exemplary Front Matter | |
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