A. L. Rowse (1903–1997)
Auteur de William Shakespeare: A Biography
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de A. L. Rowse
Homosexuals in history : a study of ambivalence in society, literature, and the arts (1977) 294 exemplaires
The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete (1978) — Directeur de publication — 267 exemplaires
The Annotated Shakespeare Volume III: The Tragedies and Romances (1978) — Directeur de publication — 71 exemplaires
The Annotated Shakespeare Volume II: The Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems (1978) — Directeur de publication — 67 exemplaires
Four Caroline Portraits: Thomas Hobbes, Henry Marten, Hugh Peters, John Selden (1993) 12 exemplaires
The Contemporary Shakespeare: v. 6: "The Comedy of Errors," "Cymbeline," "King Henry VIII," "Much Ado About Nothing,"… (1987) 1 exemplaire
The Contemporary Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, The Winter's Tale, Othello, King Henry Part I, King Henry… (1986) 1 exemplaire
The Question of the House of Lords 1 exemplaire
The Contemporary Shakespeare: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and… (1984) 1 exemplaire
MARION HOWARD SPRING 1 exemplaire
Of Raleigh And The First Plantation 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Naked to Mine Enemies: The Life of Cardinal Wolsey (1958) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 99 exemplaires
Elizabethan England: Life in an age of adventure (Life in Britain) (1982) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 43 exemplaires
The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624) — Historical Introduction, quelques éditions — 37 exemplaires
The Poems of Shakespeare's Dark Lady - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1978) — Directeur de publication — 34 exemplaires
The Chamberlain letters; a selection of the letters of John Chamberlain concerning life in England from 1597 to 1626 (1965) — Préface — 32 exemplaires
The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (1965) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 28 exemplaires
Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites: 44 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
The Myth of Asia: A Refutation of Western Stereotypes of Asian Religion, Philosophy, Art and Politics (1969) — Avant-propos — 12 exemplaires
The Hollow Men: An Examination Of British Foreign Policy Between the Years 1933 and 1939 (1965) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 6 exemplaires
The discoverie of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh, 1596: And The discoveries of the world by Antonio Galvão, 1601 (1966) — Introduction — 6 exemplaires
Ghosts in country villages: Stories of mystery and the supernatural (1983) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Contemporary Shakespeare Series: Trolius and Cressida (1986) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, 1628 and The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage by William Cornelison… (1966) — Historical introduction — 4 exemplaires
The Cornish Garden - People, Places, Plants — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Rowse, A. L.
- Nom légal
- Rowse, Alfred Leslie
- Date de naissance
- 1903-12-04
- Date de décès
- 1997-10-03
- Lieu de sépulture
- Campdowns cemetery, Charlestown, Cornwall, England
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Tregonissey, St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Trenarren, Cornwall, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK
- Études
- Christ Church College, Oxford University (BA|1925|MA|1929|D.Litt|1953)
- Professions
- historian
teacher
poet - Relations
- Causley, Charles (friend)
Scarfe, Norman (friend)
Treffry, David (friend)
Quiller-Couch, Arthur (friend) - Organisations
- Oxford University (All Souls ∙ Merton)
London School of Economics
Athenaeum Club (1972)
Labour Party
The Huntington Library - Prix et distinctions
- Companion of Honour (1996)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1947)
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, British Academy (1958)
Jenner Medal (1941)
Benson Medal (1982) (tout afficher 8)
Bard of the Cornish Gorseth (1968)
Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University - Agent
- Johnson & Alcock
Membres
Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 131
- Aussi par
- 44
- Membres
- 3,881
- Popularité
- #6,526
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 42
- ISBN
- 257
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 3
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?"… (plus d'informations)