{"product_id":"the-real-shakespeare-retrieving-the-early-years-15641594-9780300072822","title":"The Real Shakespeare Retrieving the Early Years","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an account of the first 30 years of Shakespeare's life, Eric Sams controverts all orthodox editions, biographies and references. He reveals how the playwright's youth has been concealed within a web of literary theories which misrepresent his life and work, and his early plays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 The country background: reading and writing; the family home and trades; religion, school and Latin; the early theatre; poverty; butchery and by-products; John Shakespeare's Catholic testament; Lancashire; the law clerk; Lucy and his deer; marriage and departure; theatre, work and company; the battle of the books; wits and their butts - Marlowe, Greene, Nashe, Lodge, Peele, Lyly. Appendices: allies - Harvey and Spenser; the Parnassus plays; Willobie his avisa; the sonnets; the actor-playwright of the 1590s. Part 2 Style - the noted weed: Ur Hamlet; Hamlet 1603; the taming of a shrew; the troublesome reign; contention and true tragedy; faire em and locrine; man's wit and the dialogue of dives; early start and revision; \"Bad Quartos\" and \"Memorial Reconstruction by Actors\"; \"Source Plays\", \"Derivative Plays\" and plagiarism; dating and \"Collaboration\"; \"Stylometry\"; handwriting; documents.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401495585111,"sku":"9780300072822","price":17.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300072822.jpg?v=1730477618","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-real-shakespeare-retrieving-the-early-years-15641594-9780300072822","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}