Description: Further DetailsTitle: ShadowplayCondition: NewSubtitle: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William ShakespeareISBN-10: 1541774299EAN: 9781541774292ISBN: 9781541774292Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.Format: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/25/2018Description: In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a remarkable man born into such violently volatile times apparently make no comment about the state of England in his work?He did. But it was hidden. Revealing Shakespeare's sophisticated version of a forgotten code developed by 16th-century dissidents, Clare Asquith shows how he was both a genius for all time and utterly a creature of his own era: a writer who was supported by dissident Catholic aristocrats, who agonized about the fate of England's spiritual and political life and who used the stage to attack and expose a regime which he believed had seized illegal control of the country he loved.Shakespeare's plays offer an acute insight into the politics and personalities of his era. And Clare Asquith's decoding of them offers answers to several mysteries surrounding Shakespeare's own life, including most notably why he stopped writing while still at the height of his powers. An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, Shadowplay is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 208mmItem Length: 138mmItem Width: 26mmItem Weight: 440gAuthor: Clare AsquithGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Poetry & Drama, HistoryRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Shadowplay
Title: Shadowplay
Subtitle: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 1541774299
EAN: 9781541774292
ISBN: 9781541774292
Release Date: 09/25/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Shadowplay : the Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
Number of Pages: 370 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Public Affairs
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Drama, Shakespeare, Christianity / Catholic, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Item Height: 1 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Religion, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Clare Asquith
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
