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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.
List of contents
Download PDF of Table of Contents 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).
Summary
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.
