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Bezig met laden... Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works (1993)door Robert NYE
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Summary: Mrs. Shakespeare, now widowed, recollects her one trip to London to visit her famous bard husband- deconstructing the man, the myth, the image. Anne's no poet- she's down-to-earth, unlearned, bawdy, and clever all on her own terms- unveiling a William who is the vain, romantic, dishonest, slippery, posing, fragile man of her love. Review: Nye manages to create a truly funny heroine and some very laugh out loud moments of the punny kind. Probably interesting to Shakespeare enthusiasts who have pondered his mostly undocumented private and family life. To the rest of us, there's still lots of clever discourse on the relationships between wife and husband & life and art. Ultimately, however, the story is pretty one-note, and the later third is basically all sexual fetishist category and not particularly interesting to the rest of us. bookshelves: currently-reading, radio-4x, amusing, autumn-2013, published-1993 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura The Bard's shrewd wife reveals how he left her his second-best bed. Stars Maggie Steed and Kenneth Cranham. Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jxb4 3* The Late Mr. Shakespeare 3* Mrs. Shakespeare geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Robert Nye presents a new view of Shakespeare, as revealed by his plain speaking wife in a no-holds-barred history of their relationship. It is witty and bawdy and evokes the atmosphere of Elizabethan London. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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At the same time, I really enjoyed this work, particularly with its attempt to somewhat redeem Anne. There remains an unusual critical distaste for the woman, with the popular view for decades being that the Bard was tricked into marriage, or disliked his home life. There's plenty to argue otherwise, and Nye allows us to believe most all of the other rumours about Will (from the fair youth of the Sonnets to some fundamental marital disconnects) without completely sacrificing the Shakespeares' love.
Indeed, I particularly revelled in one of the conclusions the novel comes to about a particular question looming over Shakespeare's works, and overall found this book to be an inventive and authentic treat. Will delight Bardolaters much more than everyday readers. ( )