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The playwright as magician : Shakespeare's image of the poet in the English public theater / (by) Alvin B. Kernan.
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Author
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Date published
1979
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Publisher
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1979.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
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Accession number
83185283
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Class
65.19/KER
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ISBN
0300023790
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Language
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Physical description
vii,164 p. ; 22 cm.
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Formatted contents note: Contents: The poet's place in the world: images of the poet in the Renaissance -- From the great house to the public theater: Shakespeare's sonnets and the failure of patronage -- "A little o'erparted": actors and audiences in The taming of the shrew, Love's labour's lost, A midsummer night's dream, and 1 Henry IV -- Catching the conscience of the king: politics and theater in Hamlet -- The playing tradition in the popluar theater: the morality play in King Lear -- "The great globe itself": the public playhouse and the ideal theater of The tempest -- The playwright as magician. Uk-SUSCL.