Shakespeare
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Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Frasers previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992). This volume includes a new introduction, which looks back on the authors lifelong commitment to Shakespeares work and seeks to find the pattern in his carpet.Frasers approach places Shakespeares work first but shows how the life and art interpenetrate, like the yolk and white of one shell. What Shakespeare was doing in Stratford and London underlies what he was writing, or more exactly, the two flow together. Most of the book is devoted to Shakespeare the man and artist, but it simultaneously throws light on his literary and personal relations with contemporaries such as Jonson, Marlowe, and others known as the University Wits. His experience as an actor and man of theater is absorbingly recounted here, as well as his relations to well-born patrons like the Earl of Southampton and Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon (Englands Lord Chamberlain). In 1603 when James I ascended the throne, the Chamberlains Men became the Kings Men, passing under the sovereigns protection. How Shakespeare responded to his ambiguous role--he was both servant to the great and their remorseless critic--is another of Frasers subjects. In short, Frasers principal purpose is to advance our understanding of Shakespeare, at the same time throwing light on the work of the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul. John Dryden, Shakespeares first great critic, said that, and Fraser tries to estimate what he meant.
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