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Private Life of William Shakespeare

English · Hardback

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Breathes new life into Shakespeare's story by establishing fresh interpretations of his baptism; evidence pertaining to his father; his wedding; his home; his will; and his monument.

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  • Introduction: 26 April 1564

  • 1: 23 January 1577: Shakespeare's Father

  • 2: 28 November 1582: Shakespeare's Wedding

  • 3: 4 May 1597: Shakespeare's Home

  • 4: 25 March 1616: Shakespeare's Will

  • 5: 25 April 1616: Shakespeare's Monument

  • List of Abbreviations

  • Appendix I. Shakespeare in the West Midlands

  • Appendix II. The Quiney Papers

  • Appendix III. Shakespeare's Last Will

  • Appendix IV. Shakespeare's Earlier Will

  • Appendix V. The 'Shakespeare Type' of Funerary Monuments

  • Appendix VI. Shakespeare Documented



About the author

Lena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English at Georgetown University, former Executive Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and past Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Chair of the Board of Governors of the New Variorum Shakespeare, a general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series and the Arden Shakespeare State of Play series, and member of the editorial boards of Shakespeare Studies and Shakespeare Survey. Among her many publications are Locating Privacy in Tudor London and The Bedford Shakespeare.

Summary

Breathes new life into Shakespeare's story by establishing fresh interpretations of his baptism; evidence pertaining to his father; his wedding; his home; his will; and his monument.

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The great and lasting result of her labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life....it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case...detailed and dazzling...[an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures.

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