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| re: This old story again (sigh) | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 07:05 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
| In reply to: re: This old story again (sigh) - Vivian 06:54 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
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| But he was widely celebrated, of course -- his plays were collected and published in a single folio, for which there was no precedent, with prefaces by those who knew him and his works. (Leonard Digges, who was one of the overseers of his will, also references his "Stratford monument" in the preface.) There really was no biographical genre at the time, however, which is why even Queen Elizabeth, the FOCAL POINT of the ENTIRE KINGDOM (to use your hyperbolic phrasing) does not have a contemporary biography of her life. | |
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| Shakespeare... | |
| Posted by: Vivian 07:23 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
| In reply to: re: This old story again (sigh) - MockingbirdGirl 07:05 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
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| Hi, Mockingbirdgirl, I'm not talking about a contemporary biography so much as cultural traces--presumeably Shakespeare lived a highly public life among people who tended to scribble things down, and yet there are no marks of a life lived in a social context. There's no gossip--good, bad or indifferent, and I want to know why that is. I'll pay. |
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| re: Shakespeare... | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 07:32 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
| In reply to: Shakespeare... - Vivian 07:23 pm EDT 10/31/17 | |
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| Well, both Robert Greene and Ben Johnson mentioned him -- the former offering criticism, the latter praise. So that's two people who "scribbled things down" about him... but yes, about his writing, not his "social context" (though I'm honestly not sure what that means). | |
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