Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
Though Shakespeare 's sonnets are never quite so erotically explicit, the later ones especially are steeped in sexual puns. They surely belong in the very male and homoerotic world of the early jacobean court, where Davies was ...
A tapestry of Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues. It leads you on a tour of the extraordinary, colorful and often violent world that shaped and informed Shakespeare's thinking.
Warwick then praises Oxford's “smooth discourse” and urges Oxford to renounce his fealty to Henry and support Edward for, in Warwick's (or, more correctly, the author's) words noble “Oxford . . . did ever (E.ver?) fence the right” ...
How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible? How did Shakespeare's plays lead to the deaths of an...
Throughout his life, Herman Hesse was a devoted letter writer.
In this stunning new biography, Jonathan Bate weaves an exhilarating tapestry of the Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues that shaped and informed Shakespeare's mind. In the...