The Life of Henry, Third Earl of Southampton

Shakespeare's Patron

von Charlotte Carmichael Stopes

574 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Who was the young nobleman who first recognised Shakespeare's genius and dared to sponsor it at Elizabeth's dazzling court? This classic life of Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton and Shakespeare's patron, opens a rare window onto the man behind the famous dedications. These lives still feel close. Moving from inherited privilege through the hazards of Elizabethan court politics to the shifting loyalties of early modern England, Charlotte Carmichael Stopes shapes an elizabethan biography book that is rich in atmosphere and precise in insight. As a tudor history biography it reveals the textures of Tudor nobility life: patronage and poetry, ambition and risk, conscience, friendship and reputation, all set against the wider currents of Elizabethan England history.Written by a pioneering figure in Shakespearean scholarship, this Henry Wriothesley biography book remains a touchstone shakespearean scholarship study. Stopes connects the surviving records of Shakespeare's patron Southampton with the plays and poems that surrounded him, offering context that still rewards Shakespeare researchers as well as Tudor history students seeking a vivid guide to courtly life and politics. It belongs in any serious Shakespeare studies collection and on the shelves of readers drawn to the personalities that shaped early modern England and the story of Elizabethan England history. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this landmark study is restored for today's and future generations; more than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure for all who cherish literary heritage and tudor history biography.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein Historisch, politisch, militärisch
• ISBN: 9789353604455
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.2019
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Alpha Editions