Autobiography in Shakespeare's Plays: Lands So by His Father LostP. 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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... King James VI of Scotland as a lesson in English law , courts , and procedure as he became James I of England . After 1603 and the death of Queen Elizabeth , the new English King James , with his principles of Divine Right , becomes the ...
... King James VI of Scotland as a lesson in English law , courts , and procedure as he became James I of England . After 1603 and the death of Queen Elizabeth , the new English King James , with his principles of Divine Right , becomes the ...
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... James in play- texts at the time the King was seriously considering modifications in these exclusively English judicial institutions . He contemplated amalgamating them and bringing them under his direct control , a modification that ...
... James in play- texts at the time the King was seriously considering modifications in these exclusively English judicial institutions . He contemplated amalgamating them and bringing them under his direct control , a modification that ...
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... Royal Progenitors , in the best time , and the general weal and good of our people , for which we are to answer unto God , who hath placed us over them : ... 5 In short , despite the Divine Right of Kings principle , James would allow ...
... Royal Progenitors , in the best time , and the general weal and good of our people , for which we are to answer unto God , who hath placed us over them : ... 5 In short , despite the Divine Right of Kings principle , James would allow ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Twins at the Inns of Court | 19 |
A Sons Loss and Compensation | 37 |
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