<p>In this vivid and meticulous account of the first thirty years of Shakespeare's life, Eric Sams controverts all orthodox editions, biographies and reference books. He reveals how, in conventional Shakespeare scholarship, the reality of the playwright's youth has been concealed within a web of elaborate literary theories which misrepresent his life and work, and reject, ignore, or misdate his early plays.<br>Pioneering a revolution in our understanding of the early years, Sams exposes the gulf between the accepted view and documented fact. Analysing the evidence carefully and thoroughly, he reveals Shakespeare to have been a disadvantaged country boy from an illiterate Catholic background, removed from school at the age of about thirteen to help on the family farm. Far from being a late developer, as conventionally portrayed, he was a husband and father at eighteen, and an actor and writer of popular plays soon afterwards.<br>Sams traces the impact of Shakespeare's upbringing in the language and imagery of his early comedies, histories and tragedies, not only those of the Folio editions but others, including the so-called 'Bad Quartos', widely but wrongly assumed to have been the result of 'memorial reconstruction by actors'. Through detailed textual analysis, he argues compellingly against the established view that Shakespeare wrote nothing until his middle twenties, nor revised his own work.</p>

The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594

Literature & Fiction

Eric Sams

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

The New Grove Schubert (New Grove Composer Biography)

Arts & Photography

Maurice J.E. Brown

Music

Grove Publications

Brahms songs (BBC music guides)

British Broadcasting Corporation

The Songs of Robert Schumann

Faber and Faber

The Songs of Hugo Wolf

Faber&Faber

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Shakespeare's "Edmund Ironside": The Lost Play

Dramas & Plays

Wildwood House Ltd.

This book concentrates on the 242 published songs that Wolfe wrote for voice and piano, though the Ibsen songs for voice and orchestra are also discussed. English translations are provided together with the German texts and the background to the original poems - by Morike, Eichendorff and Goethe, as well as the Italian and Spanish sources from which the songbooks were drawn - are fully explored. Each song is dated, its keys identified and vocal range determined.

The songs of Hugo Wolf

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