Shakespeare Survey
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780521523677
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare; Plays / Drama; English; Literary Criticism; General; Drama / General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary Criticism-General
First sentence: It would be instructive to relate the history of Shakespearian biography to that of biography in general, from its beginnings in Ben Jonson's Conversations or the prefatory verses of the First Folio, on to the first formal Life prefaced by Rowe to his edition of 1709, and so to the foundations of modern documented study in Malone's Life and History of the Stage in their latest form in the Variorum of 1821.