"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"--
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: Shakespeare and the `Personal Story' |
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Chapter 1 Shakespeare and Marlowe Re-writing the Relationship |
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Chapter 2 The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway |
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Chapter 3 Religion Revisited William Shakespeare, Nicholas Owen, and the Culture of Doppelbodigkeit |
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Chapter 4 To Change the Picture of Shakespeare Biography |
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Chapter 5 From Biographies to Bardcom |
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Chapter 6 Shakespeare Biography and Identity Politics |
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Chapter 7 Shakespeare and Biography |
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| Epilogue: Some Further Account of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear, with Corrections Made to the First and Second Editions, and with the Supplementation of New Matter Acquir'd from Diligent Researches in the Publick Records, and from Conversations Mr. Betterton had with the people of Stratford-upon-Avon (1715) |
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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).
