Shakespeare’s House
A Window onto his Life and Legacy
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 March 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350524699
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 232x156x18 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 bw illus 640
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Short description:
Reveals the hidden history of the house where Shakespeare was born and its changing fortunes over four centuries, mirroring the changing attitudes towards Shakespeare as a man and global icon.
MoreLong description:
'[A] page-turning story' - Laurie Maguire, Times Literary Supplement
'A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.' - Michael Billington, Country Life
Now available in paperback, Richard's Schoch's compelling history of Shakespeare's birthplace reveals the value we place on the building and on the man himself.
In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not where he wrote any of his plays, and there's nothing inside the house that once belonged to Shakespeare himself. So why, for centuries, have people kept turning up on the doorstep? Richard Schoch answers that question by examining the history of the Birthplace and by exploring how its changing fortunes over four centuries perfectly mirror the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself.
Based on original research in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and featuring two black and white illustrated plate sections, this book traces the history of Shakespeare's birthplace over four centuries. Beginning in the 1560s, when Shakespeare was born there, it ends in the 1890s, when the house was rescued from private purchase and turned into the Shakespeare monument that it remains today.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Part I: Shakespeare and the World
1. On the Right Hand of Avon
2. To Be Wise in Building a House
3. Epitome of the Whole World
4. Household Stuff
Part II: The World and Shakespeare
5. Thy Stratford Monument
6. Our Shakespeare's House
7. A Marvellous Convenient Place
8. Birth of the Birthplace
9. Cottage of Humility
10. This House for Sale
11. Snatched from Quick Decay
12. Restoring Shakespeare
13. W.S.
Epilogue: 'Memorials of the Marvellous Man'
Bibliographic Essay
Acknowledgements
Index
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