William Shakespeare, Volume 3 (German Edition)
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ISBN13: 9780217150217
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VI SHAKESPEARE AS ACTOR AND RETOUCHER OF OLD PLAYS? GREENE'S ATTACK Between 1586 and 1592 we lose all trace of Shakespeare. know only that he must have been an active member of a company of players. It is not proved that he ever belonged to any other company than the Earl of Leicester's, which owned the Black- friars, and afterwards the Globe, theatre. It is proved by several passages in contemporary writings that, partly as actor, partly as adapter of older plays for the use of the theatre, he hadfat the age of twenty-eight, made a certain name for himself, and had therefore become the object of envy and hatred. A passage in Spenser's Colin Clouts Come iJome Again, referring to a poet whose Muse doth like himself heroically sound, may with some probability, though not with certainty, be applied to Shakespeare. The theory is supported by the fact that the word gentle is here, as so often in after-life, attached to his personality. Against it we must place the circumstance that the poem, although not published till 1594, seems to have been composed as early as 1591, when Shakespeare's muse was as yet scarcely heroic, and that Drayton, who had written under the pseudonym of Rowland, may have been the poet alluded to. The first indubitable allusion to Shakespeare is of a quite dif- lerent nature. It occurs in a pamphlet written on hisdeathbed by the dramatist Robert Greene, entitled A Groat's Worth of Wit bought -with a Million of Repentance (August 1592). In it the utterly degraded and penniless poet calls upon his friends, Marlowe, Lodge or Nash, and Peele (without mentioning their names), to give up their vicious life, their blasphemy, and their getting many enemies by bitter words, holding himself up as a deterrent example; for he died, after a reckless life, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217150217 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217150217 |
| Weight | 2.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.48 In |
| List Price | $38.32 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 754 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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