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A nonfiction "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," this fascinating literary detective story tells the entertaining history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the same family for 400 years, adding new drama to the Bard's life.
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Contents
Foreword
A Note on the Writers
The Mystery Uncovered
"The God of Our Idolatry" Stanley Wells
Prime Suspects
Picturing Shakespeare in 1603 Andrew Gurr
In Search of Master Shakespeare
Scenes from the Birth of a Myth and the Death of a Dramatist Jonathan Bate
Family Traces
Looking the Part Marjorie Garber
Forensic Revelations
An Actor's Face? Robert Tittler
A Painting with a Past Tarnya Coope
The Portrait Meets Its Public
The Conundrum of the Label Alexandra F. Johnston,
Arleane Ralph and Abigail Anne Young
The Man Who Will Not Meet Your Eyes Alexander Leggatt
Is This the Face of Genius?
Choosing Your Shakespeare / Alexander Leggatt
Notes
Useful Sources / Stephanie Nolen
Plate Credits
Acknowledgments
Index
Info autore
Stephanie Nolen is the Johannesburg bureau chief for
The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. She recently reported from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and currently covers the AIDS pandemic in Africa. She is the author of
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race.
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A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the same family for 400 years -- adding new drama to the Bard's life.
When author Stephanie Nolen reported the discovery of the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted while he was alive, the announcement ignited furious controversy around the world.
Now, in this provocative biography of the portrait, she tells the riveting story of how a rare image of the young Bard at thirty-nine came to reside in the suburban home of a retired engineer, whose grandmother kept the family treasure under her bed, and how he embarked on authenticating it. The ultimate Antiques Roadshow dream, the portrait has been confirmed by six years of painstaking forensic studies to date from around 1600, and it has not been altered since.
