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.
Introduction
Katherine Scheil and Graham Holderness
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1. Shakespeare and Marlowe: Re-writing the Relationship
Robert Sawyer
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2. The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway
Katherine Scheil
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3. Religion Revisited: William Shakespeare, Nicholas Owen, and the
Culture of Doppelbödigkeit
Sonja Fielitz
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4. To Change the Picture of Shakespeare Biography
Park Honan
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5. From Biographies to Bardcom
Peter Holland
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6. Shakespeare Biography and Identity Politics
Lois Potter
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7. Shakespeare and Biography
René Weis
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8. Shakeshafte
Rowan Williams
Epilogue
Graham Holderness
Katherine Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and author of several books on Shakespeare, including Imagining Shakespeares Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway (Cambridge, 2018).
