The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594 de Dr. Eric Sams - 1997-10-20

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New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine. 1997. Paperback. 0300072821 . First paperback edition. Fine in illustrated wraps. .

Yale University Press (1995). Paperback. xvi + 256 pp. Bibliography; Index. Apparently never used. Light shelf wear only. Ships immediately.

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Yale Univ Pr, 1998. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 256 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

New. One of the central assumptions of established Shakespeare scholarship has been that the playwright produced flawless work needing no revision—that if a text was inferior in style, it could be assumed that Shakespeare did not write it. Thus Shakespeare had nothing to do with the "bad" quartos; these were instead the work of "memorial reconstruction," in which actors remembered and subsequently wrote down entire texts composed by others. In this controversial book, Eric Sams suggests that there is no evidence to substantiate memorial reconstruction, that Shakespeare very probably revised his plays repeatedly, and that he may therefore be the author of the "bad" quartos and of other works not attributed to him.  <br /><br />Drawing on testimony from Shakespeare's contemporaries and on documents concerning his family, Sams presents a vivid biographical picture of the first thirty years of the playwright's… Leer más

Yale University Press, 1997. Book. Near Fine. paperback. pictorial gloss card covers, a near fine tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, xvi + 256 pp.