Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography

Author: Diana Price

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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It successfully argues that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of an aristocrat, and that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was a shrewd entrepreneur, not a dramatist."--BOOK JACKET.


Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

Author: Paul Edmondson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1107017599

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Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.


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 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.


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.


Truth About William Shakespeare

Truth About William Shakespeare

Author: David Ellis

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0748653880

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A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information


The Truth Will Out

The Truth Will Out

Author: Brenda James

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1315288591

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The question of who wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare’s life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing. How could a man who left school at the age of 13, and apparently never travelled abroad have authored the incomparable Sonnets or so intricately described Renaissance Venice? Shakespeare ‘candidates’ abound, among them Sir Francis Bacon, The Earl of Oxford, even Queen Elizabeth I herself, but none have stood up to serious scrutiny. Until now.... This remarkable, intriguing, and provocative book offers a completely plausible new candidate; Sir Henry Neville.


A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Author: James Shapiro

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 0061840904

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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.


Speak the Speech

Speak the Speech

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Perennial

Published: 1995-06-01

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780062720634

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Offers quotations from Shakespeare's works, arranged by subject, with a glossary of antiquated terms