Young Shakespeare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Russell Fraser
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1564-1594
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: William Shakespeare, John Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway, Robert Greene, Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Sixteenth century, Drama or dramatists, Theaters, Reformation, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: England
In a book that chronicles the life of William Shakespeare for its first thirty years, Russell Fraser points out that biographers know more about Shakespeare than about any of his contemporaries, dramatists such as Robert Greene and Ben Jonson. Anyone who examines E. K. Chambers’ William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems (1930) or Samuel Schoenbaum's more recent William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (1975) recognizes the soundness of the point. Historical scholarship has uncovered numerous details and records concerning Shakespeare and his family. Yet Fraser's...
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