Shakespeare and Biography

From Shakespeare's religion to his wife to his competitors in the world of early modern theatre, biographers have approached the question of the Bard's life from numerous angles. Shakespeare & Biography offers a fresh look at the biographical questions connected with the famous playwright's life, through essays and reflections written by prominent international scholars and biographers.

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Introduction

Katherine Scheil and Graham Holderness

Chapter 1. Shakespeare and Marlowe: Re-writing the Relationship

Robert Sawyer

Chapter 2. The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway

Katherine Scheil

Chapter 3. Religion Revisited: William Shakespeare, Nicholas Owen, and the Culture of Doppelbödigkeit

Sonja Fielitz

Chapter 4. To Change the Picture of Shakespeare Biography

Park Honan

Chapter 5. From Biographies to Bardcom

Peter Holland

Chapter 6. Shakespeare Biography and Identity Politics

Lois Potter

Chapter 7. Shakespeare and Biography

René Weis

Chapter 8. Shakeshafte

Rowan Williams

Epilogue

Graham Holderness

About the author

Katherine Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and author of several books on Shakespeare, including  Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway (Cambridge, 2018).

Graham Holderness is the author of numerous books on literary criticism, theory, and scholarship, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama. His most recent works include The Faith of William Shakespeare (Lion Books, 2016), Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Re-writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury, 2014), and the historical fantasy novel Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare, Vampire Hunter (Top Hat Books, 2015).

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Holderness Scheil
• Assisted by: Graham Holderness (Editor), Katherine Scheil (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781789209037
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-903-7
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Shakespeare &
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, English, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean