Shakespeare's Lives
Shakespeare's Lives

Author: Samuel Schoenbaum

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 0198186185

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This volume presents a study of the changing images and differing ways that the life of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has been interpreted throughout history. The author takes readers on a tour of the countless myths and legends which have arisen to explain the great dramatist's life and work, bringing the story right up to 1989. He reconstructs as much of the elusive author's life as possible, considering his family history, his economic standing, and his reputation with his peers; the Shakespeare who emerges may not always be the familiar one.

The Life of William Shakespeare
The Life of William Shakespeare

Author: Lois Potter

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1118231775

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The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing. Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewer Pays particular attention to Shakespeare's theatrical contemporaries and the ways in which they influenced his writing Offers an intriguing account of the life and work of the great poet-dramatist structured around the idea of memory Explores often neglected literary and historical contexts that illuminate Shakespeare's life and works

The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare
The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare

Author: Kevin Gilvary

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1351186051

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Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life, that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain scholarly or academic respectability until long after Samuel Schoenbaum published William Shakespeare A Documentary Life in 1975. This study begins with a short survey of the history and practice of biography and then surveys the very limited biographical material for Shakespeare. Although Shakespeare gradually attained the status as a national hero during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were no serious attempts to reconstruct his life. Any attempt at an account of his life or personality amounts, however, merely to "biografiction". Modern biographers differ sharply on Shakespeare’s apparent relationships with Southampton and with Jonson, which merely underlines the fact that the documentary record has to be greatly expanded through contextual description and speculation in order to appear like a Life of Shakespeare.

Nine Lives of William Shakespeare
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare

Author: Graham Holderness

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-09-12

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 144116846X

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Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction. Or does he? Going beyond Shakespeare the writer and actor, Graham Holderness explores the fact and fiction, tradition and myth, surrounding Shakespeare's life. Combining biography and fictional narrative, Holderness takes a fresh critical approach to the problem of piecing together a definitive account of Shakespeare's life and work from scant historical information. Instead, this study builds upon and examines the many theories that surround the life of this well-known, yet remarkably unknown man. Nine Shakespeares are presented: writer, player, butcher boy, businessman, husband, friend, lover, Catholic and portrait. By carefully critiquing these biographies and reimagining these nine men, Nine Lives of William Shakespeare creates a unique picture of how this playwright became Shakespeare as he is understood today. Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare's plays. It goes back to the source – the most living language imaginable – and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return you to the plays with opened eyes.

Nothing Like the Sun
Nothing Like the Sun

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780393315073

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Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)

Author: Stephen Greenblatt

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-05-03

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0393079848

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Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.

Shakespeare's Literary Lives
Shakespeare's Literary Lives

Author: Paul Franssen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-01-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1316473120

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This is an entertaining account of Shakespeare's afterlives in fiction. Paul Franssen offers the first sustained analysis of stories and films that involve the character of Shakespeare. Taking a broad international and historical perspective, he shows how fictions about Shakespeare help us understand what he meant to a certain age, nation, or author, and how they have become a vital aspect of the Shakespeare industry. Appearing sometimes as a ghost or time-traveller, fictional Shakespeares have been made to speak to many issues, such as the French Revolution, the Irish conflict, colonialism, the Anglo-American relationship, sexual orientation, race and class. Written in an accessible style, this book will appeal to advanced students as well as academic researchers in Shakespeare studies, film and cultural studies, literary reception and creative writing.

Shakespeare
Shakespeare

Author: E. A. J. Honigmann

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780719054259

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Throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright in London.

Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough

Author: John James Ross

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0312600763

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The Bard meets "House" in this illumination of the medical mysteries surrounding 10 of the English language's most heralded writers, including John Milton, Jonathan Swift, and Jack London.

Contested Will
Contested Will

Author: James Shapiro

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-04-19

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1416541632

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Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.