Shakespeare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Russell Fraser
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1594-1616
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: William Shakespeare
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, England or English people, Business or business people, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Horror, Houses, mansions, or manors, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: England
In Shakespeare: The Later Years, Russell Fraser, the Austin Warren professor of English at the University of Michigan, has completed his two-volume biography of William Shakespeare. The first volume, Young Shakespeare (1988), chronicles the dramatist’s life for its first thirty years, to 1594. Fraser resumes his narrative with Shakespeare, at the age of thirty, becoming a partner in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, one of two London companies of players. The volume explores his most significant years of productivity and critiques most of his dramas, beginning with the plays...
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