The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration
| Author | : John Payne Collier |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 510 |
| Release | : 1831 |
| Genre | : English drama |
| ISBN | : |
The History Of English Dramatic Poetry To The Time Of Shakespeare Vol 1
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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
| Author | : George Watson |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 1296 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : |
John Payne Collier
| Author | : Arthur Freeman |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0300133308 |
John Payne Collier (1789–1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare’s age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier’s activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. Arthur and Janet Freeman reassess the scholar-forger’s long life, milieu, and relations with a large circle of associates and rivals while presenting a chronological bibliography of his extensive publications, all fully annotated with regard to their creditability. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life.
Oscar Wilde's Chatterton
| Author | : Joseph Bristow |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 485 |
| Release | : 2015-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0300213263 |
This book explores Oscar Wilde’s fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and Mitchell argue that Wilde’s substantial “Chatterton” notebook, which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama, fiction, and poetry. This volume reveals that Wilde’s research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery, especially in his later works. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources, Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton explains why, in Wilde’s personal canon of great writers, Chatterton stood as an equal in this most distinguished company.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
| Author | : William Thomas Lowndes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 872 |
| Release | : 1864 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : |
Shakespeare's Theater
| Author | : Tanya Pollard |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0470752963 |
Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. A general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious history of the time. Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate. Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation.
The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare
| Author | : Kevin Gilvary |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2017-12-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351186051 |
Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life, that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain scholarly or academic respectability until long after Samuel Schoenbaum published William Shakespeare A Documentary Life in 1975. This study begins with a short survey of the history and practice of biography and then surveys the very limited biographical material for Shakespeare. Although Shakespeare gradually attained the status as a national hero during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were no serious attempts to reconstruct his life. Any attempt at an account of his life or personality amounts, however, merely to "biografiction". Modern biographers differ sharply on Shakespeare’s apparent relationships with Southampton and with Jonson, which merely underlines the fact that the documentary record has to be greatly expanded through contextual description and speculation in order to appear like a Life of Shakespeare.
