Chasing Shakespeares

Author : Sarah Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781439122198

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Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith Pdf

From an author the San Francisco Chronicle hails as "daring and splendid" comes an exhilarating novel of passion and ideas that cuts to the heart of one of literature's most fascinating and enduring mysteries: the enigma of Shakespeare. Meet Joe Roper, tough-minded young graduate student, who has been lucky enough to land a job cataloging the famed Kellogg Collection of Elizabethan texts and curiosities. Joe's been passionate about Shakespeare since he read a duct-taped paperback at age nine and found the witches, warriors, murders, and ghosts as much fun as Stephen King, but his working-class roots make him a fish out of water in the academic world. He is seemingly as far from adventure as it's possible to be -- until the delicious Posy Gould enters, stage right. A glamorous rising star at Harvard, she insists that a letter Joe has found, signed by one W. Shakespeare of Stratford, is a career-making discovery for them both -- because the letter says Shakespeare didn't write the plays. To Joe's mind, the letter is a forgery. When Posy insists they test it, the two literary sleuths head for England to prove their clashing theories. But they find themselves in a world where the London Eye looks out over Shakespeare's city, Hollywood producers rub elbows with Elizabethan spies, and mystery shadows the heart of Westminster Abbey and the lanes of rural England. And Joe and Posy find that, when you start chasing Shakespeares, what you find is not only who he was, but who you are, and how far you're willing to go.... A first-rate mystery from one of the masters of the genre, Chasing Shakespeares is also a literary shell game, a love story, and a profound meditation on identity and ownership. Sarah Smith has created a novel that rivals A. S. Byatt's Possession in its rich and fast-moving blend of literary history and page-turning suspense.

Author : John C. Meagher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838639933

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Pursuing Shakespeare's Dramaturgy by John C. Meagher Pdf

"The Shakespeare studied in this book is Shakespeare the playmaker, engaged in every step of the process from the first draft of the text to the performance before a live audience. This, the author contends, is the Shakespeare that is most essential, the Shakespeare who should be known as the foundation underlying any other treatment of the plays, and the Shakespeare most exciting and rewarding to pursue."--Jacket.

Author : Sarah Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951636171

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Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith Pdf

Two graduate students, not alike in dignity. Joe Roper is a poor boy from Vermont, an aspiring Shakespeare biographer, who's found a letter from William Shakespeare--saying he didn't write the plays. Posy's a Hollywood producer's daughter from Harvard. She's never met a high concept she didn't like, and she likes this one.Posy wants to expose Shakespeare as a fraud and make the movie. Joe wants to save Shakespeare.The two literary sleuths head for London to prove their clashing theories. But they find themselves in a world where the London Eye looks out over Shakespeare's city, Hollywood producers rub elbows with Elizabethan spies, and mystery shadows the heart of Westminster Abbey and the lanes of rural England.And Joe and Posy find that, when you start chasing Shakespeares, what you find is not only who he was, but who you are, and how far you're willing to go...

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495029

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture by Robert Shaughnessy Pdf

This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

Author : Sarah Smith
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781618730220

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A New Shakespearean Poem? by Sarah Smith Pdf

In an obscure old volume in the British Library, bestselling mystery writer Sarah Smith found an ancient poem. Who wrote it? Ex-English professor Smith writes a snarky and accessible preface that introduces the reader to authorship studies and, with deduction worthy of Sherlock Holmes, she identifies the writer of the poem as the major alternate Shakespeare candidate, Edward de Vere.

Author : Paul Franssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107125612

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Shakespeare's Literary Lives by Paul Franssen Pdf

In this book, Franssen investigates the use of Shakespeare as a fictional character in different literary genres, periods and cultures.

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107171725

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Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction by Andrew James Hartley Pdf

This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074891775

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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : RLK
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648043994

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Chasing Shakespeare by RLK Pdf

Chasing Shakespeare By: RLK Janice Gardner as a reporter seeks only truth, all the while searching for the elusive author A. Shakespeare. Her adventures take the reader to such places as the Middle East, Africa and America. Share her adventures with family and lovers, along with heartbreaks and good times. But the past would become her biggest challenge, both personally and professionally.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074904362

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Shakespeare's Plays by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Peggy Muñoz Simonds
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 0874134293

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Myth, Emblem, and Music in Shakespeare's Cymbeline by Peggy Muñoz Simonds Pdf

"Winner of the University of Delaware Press Award for the best manuscript in Shakespearean Studies, this study clarifies and revitalizes Shakespeare's Cymbeline for the modern reader through a rediscovery of the poet's artistic use of Renaissance myths, symbols, and emblematic topoi that give meaning to the play. Although mainly concerned with the rich classical and Christian iconography of Cymbeline, the book also rages widely over Shakespeare's dramatic and nondramatic works and beyond to the work of his contemporaries in Renaissance poetry, drama, art, theology, philosophy, emblems, and myths to show parallels between the mysteries of this tragicomedy and other examples of Renaissance thought and expression. It uncovers actual representations in the visual arts of parallels to the play's descriptive and theatrical moments. These iconographic parallels are lavishly illustrated in the book through photographs of Renaissance plaster work, embroidery, metalwork, oil paintings, and sculpture, but primarily through woodcuts and engravings from English and Continental emblem books of the period. The visual imagery is carefully related to an intellectual explanation of Cymbeline's complex Neoplatonic and Reformation themes." "The author begins with a extended definition of the genre of Renaissance tragicomedy, a form developed for Christian artistic purposes in Italy by Tasso and Guarini. Aside from the obviously similar characteristics of a happy ending and the presence of an oracle, Cymbeline shares nine other artistic aspects with the pioneer Italian tragicomedies Aminta and Il pastor fido, including the celebration of an Orphic ritual of death and resurrection. After a discussion of the Neoplatonic and Ovidian mythology embedded in the play, the book considers in detail the iconography of Imogen's elaborately decorated bedroom as a reconciliation of opposites, the iconography of primitivism and Wild Men versus courtier as a satire of the British court, and the iconography of birds, animals, vegetation, and minerals as evocative of the major themes of doubt, repentance, reformation, reunion, and regeneration in Cymbeline. The final objective of the dramatic conflict is mutual forgiveness and a happy marriage, all of which is achieved through temperance or the attainment of musical concord within the individual, the state, and the world. Although Shakespeare shows the five senses to be an inadequate means for his characters to recognize true virtue in a deceitful world, the sense of hearing is the most important in the play, since it allows participation in the four redemptive functions of sound, which ultimately leads to psychological harmony with the music of the spheres." "Simonds also demonstrates that because Cymbeline is essentially an Orphic tragicomedy designed to liberate the audience from melancholy, the play strives to bring delight through its theatrical reenactment of the initially painful Platonic journey from Eros to Anteros, from blindness to a vision of divinity, from discord to musical harmony, from spiritual confusion to joyful enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Margo Anderson
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611871784

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Shakespeare by Another Name by Margo Anderson Pdf

The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon, was the author. Legendary figures such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud have all expressed grave doubts that an uneducated man who apparently owned no books and never left England wrote plays and poems that consistently reflect a learned and well-traveled insider's perspective on royal courts and the ancient feudal nobility. Recent scholarship has turned to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford-an Elizabethan court playwright known to have written in secret and who had ample means, motive and opportunity to in fact have assumed the "Shakespeare" disguise. "Shakespeare" by Another Name is the literary biography of Edward de Vere as "Shakespeare." This groundbreaking book tells the story of de Vere's action-packed life-as Renaissance man, spendthrift, courtier, wit, student, scoundrel, patron, military adventurer, and, above all, prolific ghostwriter-finding in it the background material for all of The Bard's works. Biographer Mark Anderson incorporates a wealth of new evidence, including de Vere's personal copy of the Bible (in which de Vere underlines scores of passages that are also prominent Shakespearean biblical references).

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005467785

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Shakespeare's Plays with His Life by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107354937

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Shakespeare beyond Doubt by Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells Pdf

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. But why and how did the authorship question arise and what does surviving evidence offer in answer to it? This authoritative, accessible and frequently entertaining book sets the debate in its historical context and provides an account of its main protagonists and their theories. Presenting the authorship of Shakespeare's works in relation to historiography, psychology and literary theory, twenty-three distinguished scholars reposition and develop the discussion. The book explores the issues in the light of biographical, textual and bibliographical evidence to bring fresh perspectives to an intriguing cultural phenomenon.

Author : Warren Hope,Kim Holston
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786439171

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The Shakespeare Controversy by Warren Hope,Kim Holston Pdf

Theories stating that plays attributed to Shakespeare were in fact written by other authors have existed for more than 200 years; some theories have been ridiculed and reviled while some have gained growing popular and scholarly support. The history of the Shakespeare controversy is presented in this revised edition of the 1992 work, with much new information and three additional chapters. Part I documents and critically assesses the most important theories on the authorship question. Part II is an annotated bibliography, arranged chronologically, of the many works that deal with the controversy from its vague beginnings to the present.