Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate (2009, Hardcover) 
Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate (2009, Hardcover)
Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 2009-04-07
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1400062063
ISBN-13: 9781400062065
Product ID: EPID70180575
Description: In the past, some scholars have attempted to recreate Shakespeare's life based on clues from his plays, while others have provided insights based on the historical events of his time. Few have cogently combined the two strategies as flui...
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In the past, some scholars have attempted to recreate Shakespeare's life based on clues from his plays, while others have provided insights based on the historical events of his time. Few have cogently combined the two strategies as fluidly and profitably as Jonathan Bate does in this superb new biography. Bate structures his account with the seven ages of man that Shakespeare specifically identified in AS YOU LIKE IT, roughly summarized as infancy, school, love, war, justice, retirement, and oblivion. Then Bate applies those stages of life to the historical setting of Shakespeare's time, and unveils some refreshing new theories about the man and his work. Among other insights, he surmises that Shakespeare had some training in law, based on repeated references in HAMLET and MACBETH, and that he likely was a social outcast of sorts, based on the recurring series of wise fools in the plays. Both experts and novices will find this to be an essential text, as it fills in many absent specifics of Shakespeare's life, and provides revelatory new assessments of the plays as well.

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Publication Date:2009-04-07

Size
Length:471 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:28.8 oz

Industry Reviews
"Jonathan Bate sets out to write an intellectual biography, and he triumphantly succeeds. He knows an extraordinary amount about Shakespeare, and provocative, startling insights leap out from almost every page."
(01/09/2009)

"Few have anything new to say about Shakespeare, even fewer the ability to say it in refreshing ways. This exceptional book does both....Bate is generous with his learning, insight and wit, and more than willing to explain thoroughly." (starred review)
(02/15/2009)

"[T]his beauty of a book...[is] rich in insight, immaculate in scholarship, [and] a work that is destined...to become one of the standard sources on its subject."
(04/29/2009)

"[SOUL OF THE AGE] is distinguished by the intimate, seemingly line-by-line knowledge that Mr. Bate...brings to his subject's writings and his ability to use that knowledge to trace the influences on those works with acuity and verve."
(05/04/2009)

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