Brief Lives (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Aubrey
- First Published: 1813
- Type of Work: Biographies
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Drama or dramatists, Renaissance, Civil wars
- Locales: London, England
Critical Evaluation:
John Aubrey was interested in the biographical rather than the historical elements of great events. He found out all he could about the people of his time; some of it is gossip, some of it actual historical fact. At Oxford he came under the influence of antiquaries, and he began to do research on biography of a more sophisticated and indeed scientific kind than had previously been practiced. He worked from local records, birth and death registers, letters, legal documents, and even from tombstones in order to acquire information for his great series of...
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