Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan : 1592-1623 - Katherine Duncan-Jones

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan

1592-1623

By: Katherine Duncan-Jones

Hardcover | 12 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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An original and provocative study of the evolution of Shakespeare’s image, building on the success of Duncan-Jones' acclaimed biography, Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life. Taking a broadly chronological approach, she investigates Shakespeare’s changing reputation, as a man, an actor and a poet, both from his own viewpoint and from that of his contemporaries. Many different categories of material are explored, including printed books, manuscripts, literary and non-literary sources. Rather than a biography, the book is an exploration with biographical elements. The change in public opinion in Shakespeare’s time is quite startling: Henry Chettle attacked him as an ‘upstart Crow’ in 1592, an attack from which Shakespeare sought to defend himself; and yet by the time of the First Folio in 1623 he had become the ‘Sweet Swan of Avon!’ and was fast becoming the literary treasure he remains today.

This engaging and fascinating study brings the politics and fashions of Shakespeare’s literary and theatrical world vividly to life.

Industry Reviews
'Katherine Duncan-Jones...has given much energy and expertise over the years to showing that it was the other, less lyrical, shrewd-headed Shakespeare we glimpse in county archives and Chancery documents who secured the success and eventual apotheosis of 'Gentle Shakespeare,' the poet commemorated by a fine folio edition of his works in 1623. Duncan-Jones' Shakespeare is Shakespeare the survivor, the tradesman's son with no university credentials and no connections in high places...This new book is valuable for its revaluation of previous material (from Ungentle Shakespeare) its greater conciseness and its updated research...(which) allows Duncan-Jones to drawn the line she sees in Shakespeare's life more sharply...
...Her writing is immersed in close textual detail, yet there is still a strong, overriding sense of Shakespeare's presence in his various milieus...(Duncan-Jones has) an astute touch.'
John Stubbs, Literary Review

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