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The book is structured around Shakespeare’s arc of human life from infancy and childhood to adulthood, advancing age and eventual death, as set out by Jaques in the so-called ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech from As You Like It.
Each stage in the life cycle acts as a lens through which the reader can view Shakespeare’s major works. The result is a dazzling series of explorations on childhood, sibling rivalry, courtship, the competition of sons with their fathers, career choices and ambitions, disillusionment and loss of traditional faith, marriage, jealousy, midlife crisis, ageing fathers worrying about their daughters' marrying, retirement, and so onward to ‘second childishness and mere oblivion’. Bevington reveals that Shakespeare wrote not just about human experience, but from human experience. His works represent a deeply humane portrait of humankind, and of the author himself, in a series of compelling dramatic representations.
This is a virtuoso performance by an eminent scholar, widely noted for his great gifts of explication and for his mastery of accessible prose.
With Peter Holbrook he has edited a collection of essays on The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque (1998).
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