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Shakespeare and the Poets' War

By James Bednarz
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By James Bednarz
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In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. ...

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LiteratureLiterary CriticismDrama - Literary CriticismEnglish LiteratureEnglish Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary CriticismEnglish Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Literary CriticismEnglish Fiction & Prose Literature - 16th-17th Century - Literary Criticism