The Life of Timon of Athens

Name: The Life of Timon of Athens
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Author: Shakespeare, William
ISBN: 9780850670998

Shakespeare, William

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Language: English

Published by Folio Society, 1976

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As New; bright, crisp, and square; in beautiful condition. No dust jacket issued. In a Good slipcase with sunning to spine edges; some scuffing; a possible damp stain to lower forecorner; else Very Good. Introduction by the great Shakespearian actor Paul Scofield. With 7 full-page paintings by Desmond Heeley, including frontispiece.

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Title: The Life of Timon of Athens
Author: Shakespeare, William
Publisher: Folio Society
Publication year: 1976
Condition: As New
Book Type: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0850670993
ISBN 13: 9780850670998
Illustrator: Illus. By Desmond Heeley
Seller catalogs: For sale in june 2026

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THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD Anne Hathaway’s greater burden of years and the likelihood that the poet was forced into marrying her by her friends were not circumstances of happy augury. Although it is dangerous to read into Shakespeare’s dramatic utterances allusions to his personal experience, the emphasis with which he insists that a woman should take in marriage ‘an elder than herself,’ and that prenuptial intimacy is productive of ‘barren hate, sour-eyed disdain, and discord,’ suggest a personal interpretation. To both these unpromising features was added, in the poet’s case, the absence of a means of livelihood, and his course of life in the years that immediately followed implies that he bore his domestic ties with impatience. Early in 1585 twins were born to him, a son (Hamnet) and a daughter (Judith); both were baptised on February 2. All the evidence points to the conclusion, which the fact that he had no more children confirms, that in the later months of the year (1585) he left Stratford, and that, although he was never wholly estranged from his family, he saw little of wife or children for eleven years. Between the winter of 1585 and the autumn of 1596—an interval which synchronises with his first literary triumphs—there is only one shadowy mention of his name in Stratford records. In April 1587 there died Edmund Lambert, who held Asbies under the mortgage of 1578, and a few months later Shakespeare’s name, as owner of a contingent interest, was joined to that of his father and mother in a formal assent given to an abortive proposal to confer on Edmund’s son and heir, John Lambert, an absolute title to the estate on condition of his cancelling the mortgage and paying £20. But the deed does not indicate that Shakespeare personally assisted at the transaction. Poaching at Charlecote. Shakespeare’s early literary work proves that while in the country he eagerly studied birds, flowers, and trees, and gained a detailed knowledge of horses and dogs. All his kinsfolk were farmers, and with them he doubtless as a youth practised many field sports. Sympathetic references to hawking, hunting, coursing, and angling abound in his early plays and poems. And his sporting experiences passed at times beyond orthodox limits. A poaching adventure, according to a credible tradition, was the immediate cause of his long severance from his native place.

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