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Author : Diana Price
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050312084
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.
Author : Diana Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 0986032603
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393079845
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.
Author : Samuel Schoenbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography (as a literary form)
ISBN : 9780198186182
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.
Author : Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107017597
Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571258697
For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays (among them such leading writers and artists as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, and Sir Derek Jacobi) Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro's fascinating search for the source of this controversy retraces a path strewn with fabricated documents, calls for trials, false claimants, concealed identity, bald-faced deception and a failure to grasp what could not be imagined. If Contested Will does not end the authorship question once and for all, it will nonetheless irrevocably change the nature of the debate by confronting what's really contested: are the plays and poems of Shakespeare autobiographical, and if so, do they hold the key to the question of who wrote them? '[Shapiro] writes erudite, undumbed-down history that . . . reads as fluidly as a good novel.' David Mitchell, the Guardian.
Author : David Ellis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748653881
A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information
Author : John Casson,William D. Rubinstein
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781445654676
Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?
Author : Katherine Chiljan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982940556
Non-fiction research book about Shakespeare, the man and his works, based on contemporary evidence. This evidence conflicts with the orthodox view; for example, contemporary evidence shows that ?William Shakespeare? was a pen name, and that his plays were written far earlier than believed. The book also deconstructs the case of the Stratford Man as Shakespeare, and presents a theory how and why the two different identities were later confused. 2nd edition, 448 pages, footnotes, plates.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613100417
ÊIs Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, and extensive quotation of contemporary authors on the subject. Ê The original publication spans only 150 pages, and the formatting leaves roughly half of each page blank. The spine is thread bound. It was published in April 1909 by Harper & Brothers, twelve months before Mark Twain's death. Ê The book attracted controversy for incorporating a chapter from The Shakespeare Problem Restated by George Greenwood without permission or proper credit, an oversight Twain blamed on the accidental omission of a footnote by the printer. Ê The book has been described as "one of his least well received and most misunderstood works". Although she admits that Twain appears to have been sincere in his beliefs concerning Shakespeare, Karen Lystra argues that the essay reveals satirical intentions that went beyond the ShakespeareÑBacon controversy of the time. Ê Though it is commonly assumed to be nothing more than a stale and embarrassing rehash of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, Twain was up to something more than flimsy literary criticism. He was using the debate over Shakespeare's real identity to satirize prejudice, intolerance, and self-importanceÑin himself as well as others.... But after his passionate diatribe against the "Stratfordolators" and his vigorous support of the Baconians, he cheerfully admits that both sides are built on inference. Leaving no doubt about his satirical intent, Twain then gleefully subverts his entire argument. After seeming to be a serious, even angry, combatant, he denies that he intended to convince anyone that Shakespeare was not the real author of his works. "It would grieve me to know that any one could think so injuriously of me, so uncomplimentarily, so unadmiringly of me," he writes mockingly. "Would I be so soft as that, after having known the human race familiarly for nearly seventy-four years?" We get our beliefs at second hand, he explains, "we reason none of them out for ourselves. It is the way we are made." Twain has set a trapÑan elaborate joke at the expense of what he scornfully refers to as the "Reasoning Race." He is satirizing the need to win an argument when it is virtually impossible to convince anyone to change sides in almost any debate. His excessive rhetoric of attack is obviously absurdÑcalling the other side "thugs," for exampleÑyet it has been taken at face value.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Perennial
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Quotations, English.
ISBN : 0062720635
Offers quotations from Shakespeare's works, arranged by subject, with a glossary of antiquated terms
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1542 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038309329
Explains the historical, legendary, and mythological background of 38 plays and 2 narrative poems.
Author : Peter Andrew Sturrock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 0984261419
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743247221
Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.
Author : G B (George Bagshawe) 18 Harrison
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014384826
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