{"product_id":"shakespeare-national-poet-playwright-hardback-9780521839235","title":"Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright (Hardback) 9780521839235","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare, National Poet-Playwright\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn important book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick Cheney (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521839235, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 November 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 6 b\/w illus.  2 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Cheney's impressive familiarity with the wide range of English Renaissance poetry and drama as well as an immense body of scholarship and criticism commands unreserved respect and makes Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright a particularly important and stimulating contribution to a more complete, less fragmented evaluation of Shakespeare's literary status.' Archiv\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eShakespeare, National Poet-Playwright is an important book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as 'a man of the theatre' by recovering his original standing as an early modern author: he is a working dramatist who composes some of the most extraordinary poems in English. The book accounts for this form of authorship by reconstructing the historical preconditions for its emergence, in England as in Europe, including the building of the commercial theatres and the consolidation of the printing press. Cheney traces the literary origin to Shakespeare's favourite author, Ovid, who wrote the Amores and Metamorphoses alongside the tragedy Medea. Cheney also examines Shakespeare's literary relations with his contemporary authors Edmund Spenser and Christopher Marlowe. The book concentrates on Shakespeare's freestanding poems, but makes frequent reference to the plays, and ranges widely through the work of other Renaissance writers.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Note on texts\u003cbr\u003e Proem: Shakespeare's 'Plaies and Poems'\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Imprint of Shakespearean Authorship: Prelude: Shakespeare, Cervantes, Petrarch\u003cbr\u003e 1. The sixteenth-century poet-playwright\u003cbr\u003e 2. Francis Meres, the Ovidian poet-playwright, and Shakespeare criticism\u003cbr\u003e Part II. 1593–1594: The Print Author Presents Himself: Play Scene: 'Two Gentlemen' to 'Richard III'\u003cbr\u003e 3. Authorship and acting: plotting Venus and Adonis along the Virgilian path\u003cbr\u003e 4. Publishing the show: The Rape of Lucrece as Lucanian counter-epic of empire\u003cbr\u003e Part III. 1599–1601: The Author Brought Into Print: Play Scene: 'Love's Labor's Lost' to 'Troilus and Cressida'\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Tales … coined': 'W. Shakespeare' in Jaggard's The Passionate Pilgrim\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Threne' and 'scene': the author's relics of immortality in 'The Phoenix and Turtle'\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. 1609: Imprinting the Question of Authorship: Play Scene: 'Measure for Measure' to 'Coriolanus'\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'O, let my books be … dumb presagers': poetry and theatre in the sonnets\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'Deep-brain'd sonnets' and 'tragic shows': Shakespeare's late Ovidian art in A Lover's Complaint\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Ariel and Autolycus: Shakespeare's counter-laureate authorship\u003cbr\u003e Works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005256749336,"sku":"9780521839235","price":95.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521839235i_0e61ffb3-7741-49d1-acc6-b05992dd3efc.jpg?v=1691368683","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shakespeare-national-poet-playwright-hardback-9780521839235","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}