Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

by Gary Schmidgall

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare -- or any poet of the time -- ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813117062
• ISBN13: 9780813117065
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher