Honan, Park Shakespeare: A Life ISBN 13: 9780198117926

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In the last ten years, virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare has been modified by new research. Park Honan draws on this new information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright.
Here is virtually all that can be factually known or reasonably speculated about Shakespeare's life. Readers will find a vivid picture of what Shakespeare's childhood might have been like in the small English town of Stratford, which had but a dozen streets in 1560. We meet his father, John Shakespeare, the glovemaker of Henley Street, who rose to the office of High Bailiff and Justice of the Peace before he was beset by financial difficulties. There is a fascinating portrait of London and of the life of an Elizabethan actor (a neophyte Shakespeare may have had to learn as many as a hundred small parts per season). Honan casts new light on the young poet's relationships--his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters--illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions, and concerns. The author shows in fresh detail that Shakespeare was well acquainted with violent crime and murder in daily life. And he also examines the world of the playing companies--the power of patronage, theatrical conditions, and personal rivalries--to reveal the relationship between the man and the writing.
Park Honan's Shakespeare casts new light on a complex and fascinating life, illuminating Shakespeare's extraordinary development into the greatest dramatist of his or any age.

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Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning. He lives in the United Kingdom.
Review:
`It does bring us closer to the world that Shakespeare lived in ... This is a timely, well-written and accessible biography of Shakespeare, which is exceptional for its lucid descriptions of the landscapes and locales that Shakespeare knew and maybe wrote about.'
EMLS, 6.2, Sept 2000

`a meticulously researched ... authoritative biography ... it is lucid, enjoyable and reliable in excluding (exuding?) colourful, imaginative reconstructions and elaborate psychological theories which strain credulity and are less exciting than newly found factual truth.'
Patrick Richards, Day by Day, 14/12/00.

`This engrossing life, using a wealth of new evidence to illustrate personal experiences and artistic development of the greatest English writer, is incomparably vivid and credible ... I know no biography of Shakespeare to rival this one.'
Patrick Richards, Day by Day, 14/12/00.

`Honan has gone through town and church registers with a keen eye and a happy wit ... an always interesting book.'
Peter Ackroyd, The Times, 22/10/98

`It is fascinating stuff, a wealth of minutiae'
Max Davidson, Travel section, The Daily Telegraph, 22/05/99.

`Park Honan's very readable 'Shakespeare's Life' has the latest facts on the Bard's life.'
Plays and Players Applause, Dec 98-Jan 99

`his biography of Shakespeare is clearly the product of a lifelong engagement with his works and of a thorough study of the documentary evidence and the life of the time ... others have told the story of Shakespeare's life, but none of them with the fullness of detail, the scholarship, the
literary skill and the sheer readability that Honan brings to his task ... this is now the best available life of Shakespeare.'
Stanley Wells, The Observer, 18/10/98

`The opening chapters... bring the Stratford of those old days to vivid and pertinent life... Honan's close quarrying of theatrical records yields many suggestive nuggets.'
Eric Griffiths, TLS 01/09/2000

`impressive new biography ... Honan's particular flair is for the vivid dramatic reconstruction of small incidents recorded only fleetingly by contemporary documents ... a highly readable book which is more reliable about more aspects of Shakespeare's life and career than any other currently
on the market ...'
Michael Dobson, London Review of Books, 07/01/99

`Park Honan's Shakespeare: a Life is a sober, searching, coolly-judged narrative, with a strong spirit of place in its evocations of Stratford and London, guarded about the relationship between Stratford's life and works, yet also alert to the mystery at the core of the man. The book eschews
sensationalism, even to the point of austerity, but can flare into sudden, oddly moving impassioned passages. It is built to last.'
English Studies, Vol.81 No.1

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  • PublisherClarendon Press
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0198117922
  • ISBN 13 9780198117926
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages512
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