A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare, Player, Poet, and Playmaker, Volumen70J. C. Nimmo, 1886 - 364 páginas IT is due to the reader of a new work on a subject already so often handled as the Life of Shakespeare to tell him at the outset what he may expect to find therein, and to state the reasons for which I have thought it worth while to devote nearly ten years to its production. Previous investigators have with industrious minuteness already ascertained for us every detail that can reasonably be expected of Shakespeare's private life. With laborious research they have raked together the records of petty debts, of parish assessments, of scandalous traditions, of idle gossip; and they have shown beyond doubt that Shakespeare was born at Stratford-on-Avon, was married, had three children, left his home, made money as an actor and play-maker in London, returned to his native town, invested his savings there, and died. I do not think that when stript of verbiage, and what the slang of the day calls padding, much more than this can be claimed as the result of the voluminous writings on this side of his career. For one I am thankful that things are so; I have little sympathy with the modern inquisitiveness that peeps over the garden wall to see in what array the great man smokes his pipe, and chronicles the shape and colour of his head-covering. But on the public side of Shakespeare's career little has been adequately ascertained; and with this we are deeply concerned. |
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... stage . But he did not remain content with merely acting ; he now commenced as author . In order to ascertain under what conditions , it will be necessary to briefly state what was the position of the companies and authors in London in ...
... stage in April , probably by Greene at the Theater , possibly by the Paul's children in some play of Lyly's , or by the Earl of Oxford's boys in one of Monday's . The authorities did not interfere . But in November certain players ...
... stage . That Shakespeare was greatly influenced by him and Peele is evident from the metrical character of Shakespeare's earliest work , which abounds in heroic rhyme like Peele's in tragedy , and in doggerel and stanza like Wilson's in ...
... stage ; it was evidently written for a marriage , but , like the preceding play , had been altered for this special occasion . Its original production was probably in 1592 , at the marriage of Robert Carey , afterwards Earl of Monmouth ...
... stage than usual . For the same reason this alteration was expressly alluded to in the Epilogue to 2 Henry IV . , " Oldcastle is not the man . " In this same year Much Ado about Nothing ( probably a recast of Love's Labour's Won ) was ...