Autobiography in Shakespeare's Plays: Lands So by His Father Lost

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P. Lang, 2002 - Počet stran: 124
Shakespeare's authorship of his plays can no longer be in doubt with this book's clear identification of autobiographical passages throughout his work from his legal documents in Stratford and London courts. Shakespeare refers to the loss of his inheritance, by his father mortgaging it to his uncle, from early works such as Taming of the Shrew to the late Lear. His mother is referred to in As You Like It and Coriolanus; his twins in Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night; and the loss of his son from Merchant of Venice to Macbeth. His daughters, as recipients of his accumulated wealth, are subjects of his concern from Lear to The Tempest. More important, the knowledge of the law in his personal pursuits is revealed as a source for the legal content in his works, which found fit audiences among jurists at the Inns of Court law schools and in King James' Court. Shakespeare pleased the king on these matters enough to have him command his plays to be repeated on an occasion. For himself, Shakespeare learned from his own writing how to deal with the language of law theoretically and conceptually with such concepts as equity and mercy in Chancery. He used his own family life, personal documents, and legal problems to give impetus to his version of borrowed characters, plots, plays, and history. These personal events, from the placement of the references, give his plays, which sometimes end with a fictionalized, wish-fulfillment, or literary compensation, an autobiographical initial compulsion.

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Introduction
1
Twins at the Inns of Court
19
A Sons Loss and Compensation
37
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The Author: W. Nicholas Knight is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Rolla where he has served as Chairman of Humanities. He received his B.A. in English from Amherst College, Massachusetts, his M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in English from Indiana University-Bloomington. His post-doctoral research was conducted at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He has taught at Wesleyan University, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Imperial College, London. Knight is the author of Shakespeare's Hidden Life as well as numerous Shakespeare articles in British, Canadian, and American journals. He has been a Ford Foundation, Newberry Library, Wesleyan Center for the Humanities, Warburg Institute, and NEH Fellow. His play on the Kennedy assassination, The Death of J.K., was performed off-Broadway as well as in London and the Inns of Court.

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