Shakespeare of London (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Marchette Gaylord Chute
- First Published: 1949
- Time of Work: 1550–1623
- Setting: Stratford and London, England
- Principal Characters: William Shakespeare, John Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Heminges
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Writing, England or English people, London, Sixteenth century, Drama or dramatists, Biography, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
- Locales: London, England, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Form and Content
Drawing on contemporary documents, none later than 1635, as well as on numerous secondary sources, Marchette Chute traces William Shakespeare’s life chronologically, from his father’s coming to Stratford from Snitterfield sometime in the mid-1500’s to the publication of the First Folio in 1623, seven years after the play-wright’s death. The first of Shakespeare of London’s three appendices examines the sonnets, especially the first 126, which are addressed to a young man; Chute argues that the poet uses terms of friendship conventional for the...
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