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A. L. Rowse (1903–1997)

Autor(a) de William Shakespeare: A Biography

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About the Author

Alfred Leslie Rowse was a British author and historian. He was born at Tregonissey in 1903. He is known for his work in Elizabethan England and his poetry about Cornwall. He graduated with first class honours in 1925 and was elected a Fellow of All Souls College the same year. In 1929, he was mostrar mais awarded his Master of Arts degree, and in 1927 was appointed Lecturer at Merton College, where he stayed until 1930. He became a Lecturer at the London School of Economics. Rowse published about 100 books. He also became a celebrated author and much-travelled lecturer in the mid-20th century, especially in the United States. He also published many popular articles in newspapers and magazines in Great Britain and the United States. In 1963 Rowse began to concentrate on Shakespeare, starting with a biography in which he claimed to have dated all the sonnets. In 1973 he published Shakespeare the Man, in which he claimed to have solved the final problem the identity of the 'Dark Lady': from a close reading of the sonnets and the diaries of Simon Forman, he asserted that she must have been Emilia Lanier, whose poems he would later collect. He suggested that Shakespeare had been influenced by the feud between the Danvers and Long families in Wiltshire, when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. A.L. Rowse passed away on October 3, 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de A. L. Rowse

The England of Elizabeth (1950) 257 cópias
A Man of Singular Virtue (1979) — Editor — 183 cópias
The use of history (1946) 93 cópias
A Cornish Childhood (1942) 87 cópias
Heritage of Britain (1977) 84 cópias
Shakespeare the Man (1973) 84 cópias
The Early Churchills (1956) 78 cópias
The Story of Britain (1979) 69 cópias
The Elizabethans and America (1959) 60 cópias
The English Spirit (1944) 52 cópias
The Annotated Shakespeare Volume I: The Comedies (1978) — Editor — 48 cópias
The Later Churchills (1958) 44 cópias
Eminent Elizabethans (1983) 40 cópias
Christopher Marlowe (1964) 39 cópias
Westminster Abbey (1972) 35 cópias
Tudor Cornwall (1941) 31 cópias
Jonathan Swift (1975) 31 cópias
Shakespeare's Sonnets (1964) — Editor — 29 cópias
The Elizabethan Age (2012) 29 cópias
In Shakespeare's Land (1986) 27 cópias
Ralegh and the Throckmortons (1962) 26 cópias
The Diaries of A.L. Rowse (2003) 25 cópias
Historians I Have Known (1995) 22 cópias
West-Country Stories (1945) 17 cópias
A History of France (1953) 16 cópias
A Cornish Anthology (1968) 16 cópias
A Cornishman at Oxford (1965) 15 cópias
The Byrons and Trevanions (1978) 14 cópias
Memories and Glimpses (1986) 13 cópias
Glimpses of the Great (1985) 13 cópias
All Souls in My Time (1993) 12 cópias
A Quartet Of Cornish Cats (1986) 11 cópias
The Little Land of Cornwall (1986) 10 cópias
Shakespeare the Elizabethan (1977) 10 cópias
A Man of the Thirties (1979) 9 cópias
A Life: Collected Poems (1981) 8 cópias
A Cornishman Abroad (1976) 8 cópias
Three Cornish Cats (1978) 8 cópias
The End of an Epoch (1947) 8 cópias
The Tower of London (1977) 7 cópias
The Cornish in America (1959) 6 cópias
Essays in Cornish History (1935) — Editor — 5 cópias
Poems of Deliverance (1946) 5 cópias
An Elizabethan Garland (1953) 4 cópias
My View of Shakespeare (1996) 4 cópias
Strange Encounter (1972) 4 cópias
Royal homes illustrated (1953) — Introdução — 4 cópias
Friends and Contemporaries (1989) 4 cópias
Poems chiefly Cornish (1944) 4 cópias
Cornish stories (1967) 3 cópias
The West in English History (1949) — Editor — 3 cópias
The Road to Oxford (1978) 3 cópias
Poems of a Decade 1931-1941 (1941) 2 cópias
Twelfth Night (1984) 1 exemplar(es)
Cornish Place Rhymes (1997) 1 exemplar(es)
Queen Elizabeth and her subjects, (1935) 1 exemplar(es)
Stories from Trenarren (1986) 1 exemplar(es)
MARION HOWARD SPRING 1 exemplar(es)
Transatlantic: Later Poems (1989) 1 exemplar(es)
Poems Partly American. (1959) 1 exemplar(es)
Poems of Cornwall and America (1967) 1 exemplar(es)
Selected Poems (1990) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Elizabeth the Great (1958) — Introdução, algumas edições695 cópias
The Trial of Charles I (1964) — Introdução, algumas edições663 cópias
Lenin and the Russian revolution (1947) — Series editor — 168 cópias
The First Colonists: Hakluyt's voyages to North America (1986) — Introdução — 146 cópias
Naked to Mine Enemies: The Life of Cardinal Wolsey (1958) — Introdução, algumas edições98 cópias
Churchill: By His Contemporaries (1953) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
Elizabethan England: Life in an age of adventure (Life in Britain) (1982) — Prefácio, algumas edições43 cópias
Under the Greenwood Tree: Shakespeare for Young People (1986) — Introdução — 40 cópias
The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624) — Historical Introduction, algumas edições36 cópias
Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (1985) — Contribuinte — 34 cópias
Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan Revolution (1958) — Series general editor — 34 cópias
The Wonderful Year 1603 (1989) — Introdução, algumas edições33 cópias
Ways of medieval life and thought, essays and addresses (1949) — Introdução — 31 cópias
The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (1965) — Prefácio, algumas edições28 cópias
Human Nature in Politics (1908) — Prefácio, algumas edições28 cópias
Cornish Tales of Terror (1970) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
Cornish Short Stories (1976) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias
Gladstone and Liberalism (1952) — General editor — 17 cópias
Woodrow Wilson and American Liberalism (1947) — Series editor — 16 cópias
Cook and the Opening of the Pacific (1946) — Series editor — 12 cópias
Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse (1982) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
A Cornish Waif's Story - An Autobiography (1954) — Prefácio — 11 cópias
In the Green Tree (1948) — Prefácio — 9 cópias
The autobiography of Howard Spring; (1972) — Prefácio, algumas edições6 cópias
The Spanish Story of Armada (1895) — Editor, algumas edições6 cópias
Cornwall in the age of the industrial revolution (1953) — Prefácio — 5 cópias
Cornwall (1949) — Prefácio — 5 cópias
Stories of Haunted Inns (1983) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
West Country Short Stories (1949) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Stories of Horror and Suspense: An Anthology (1977) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
One Hundred Years a Diocese (1977) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
The Two Chiefs of Dunboy (1969) — Editor and Foreword — 1 exemplar(es)
Church Treasures in the Oxford District (1984) — Prefácio — 1 exemplar(es)
The Cornish Garden - People, Places, Plants — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Stories of the Macabre (1976) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

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Just a disaster, and I'm appalled by the people who gave this a five-star review. There's a fantastic review by the ever-reliable Jeanne Addison Roberts in Shakespeare Quarterly 1979 which is worth quoting: "the motivating spirit behind this spectacular non-book is clearly commercial".

Despite being published in 1978, A.L. Rowse's edition of Shakespeare breezily reprints a 1904 text (itself a copy of 19th century texts) which is itself an unusual decision, in light of the many worthy Shakespeare editions released in those intervening years, from the Arden to the Riverside. The introductions to each play are, as Roberts notes, "drawn almost entirely from [Rowse's] own earlier work" and are of the tossed-off variety, aiming to pontificate on a half-dozen received facts about the play without, it seems, much engagement with contemporary criticism. The margin glosses are surprisingly few and, while yes, Rowse can often be delightfully eccentric, as others note, he is also sometimes just passing the time. When pages pass with only three or four glosses, one feels that this can hardly be the Shakespeare for every household in the land. Sometimes, Rowse even uses "correct" as if he is just telling the reader what word should be there, rather than asserting his opinion in the crowded field of editors from 1709 to the present day.

The only reason this edition merited two stars was because there are many hundreds of pictures, most of them nineteenth-century, meaning at least there is some historical value to this work. Given the grotesque size of the thing, this is hardly worth the purchasing, particularly not with another forty years having passed in the interim.

To quote Roberts once more, "do we laugh or cry?"
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therebelprince | outras 5 resenhas | Oct 24, 2023 |
I very much enjoyed this comedy about two sets of twins.
 
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leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
These are short portraits of ten significant twentieth century figures, acquaintances of the author, ranging from the poet Auden and the mystery writer Agatha Christie to political figures like Nancy Astor, Lord Beaverbrook, and Winston Churchill. Historians will be particularly interested to read Rowse's accounts of G.M. Trevelyan and Samuel Eliot Morison. Throughout, Rowse lives up to his reputation as a vain but witty controversialist. Some people will probably find Rowse's conceits to be "too much," but I find him to be more than tolerable in small doses.… (mais)
 
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yooperprof | Jun 6, 2023 |

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