Living with Shakespeare
Saint Helen's Parish, 1593-1598
Seiten
2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7972-1 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7972-1 (ISBN)
Shakespeare's life in the 1590s in the parish of St. Helens, Bishopsgate Street, and an examination of his parish and his neighbours, who included the radical 'Paracelsian' doctors, musicians, public figures and international merchants
This book unearths a section (c. 1593-1598) of Shakespeare's life, as he turned 30. It takes a new theoretical approach by studying Shakespeare as a parishioner and by examining the approximately 100 families who lived in his parish. Marsh demonstrates how Shakespeare's neighbours' interests, work and connections formed part of the background environment that Shakespeare probably borrowed from, in the same way as he reworked existing stories. The parish was half female, 15% were French/Dutch, 7% musicians, one was Lord Mayor and there was the historian John Stow, 'spy/operator' Henry Maunder and composer Thomas Morley. One was arguably the world's greatest playwright but on Sunday, in church, he would have been just another parishioner.
This book unearths a section (c. 1593-1598) of Shakespeare's life, as he turned 30. It takes a new theoretical approach by studying Shakespeare as a parishioner and by examining the approximately 100 families who lived in his parish. Marsh demonstrates how Shakespeare's neighbours' interests, work and connections formed part of the background environment that Shakespeare probably borrowed from, in the same way as he reworked existing stories. The parish was half female, 15% were French/Dutch, 7% musicians, one was Lord Mayor and there was the historian John Stow, 'spy/operator' Henry Maunder and composer Thomas Morley. One was arguably the world's greatest playwright but on Sunday, in church, he would have been just another parishioner.
Geoffrey Marsh runs the Theatre and Performing Arts department of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is the co-editor of David Bowie Is and You Say You Want a Revolution: Records and Rebels, 1966-70.
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 179 colour illustrations 170 colour images and 9 tables |
Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4744-7972-3 / 1474479723 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-7972-1 / 9781474479721 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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