The truth about William Shakespeare : fact, fiction and modern biographies / David Ellis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.Description: x, 198 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780748646678
  • 0748646671
  • 9780748646661
  • 0748646663
  • 9780748646685
  • 074864668X
  • 9780748653874
  • 0748653872
  • 9780748653881
  • 0748653880
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.33 23
LOC classification:
  • PR2894 .E45 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Rules of the game -- How to make bricks without straw -- Forebears -- The female line and Catholicism -- Boyhood and youth -- Marriage -- The theatre -- Patronage, or, who's who in the sonnets -- Shakespeare and the love of men -- Shakespeare and the love of women -- Friends -- London life -- Politics -- Money -- Retirement and death -- Post-mortem -- Gossip -- The post-modernist challenge -- The argument from expertise -- Final thoughts.
Summary: "A probing account of the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information"--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-192) and index.

"A probing account of the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information"--Jacket.

Rules of the game -- How to make bricks without straw -- Forebears -- The female line and Catholicism -- Boyhood and youth -- Marriage -- The theatre -- Patronage, or, who's who in the sonnets -- Shakespeare and the love of men -- Shakespeare and the love of women -- Friends -- London life -- Politics -- Money -- Retirement and death -- Post-mortem -- Gossip -- The post-modernist challenge -- The argument from expertise -- Final thoughts.

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