Ellis, David, 1939-

The truth about William Shakespeare : fact, fiction and modern biographies / David Ellis. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012. - x, 198 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-192) and index.

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.

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

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Biography.
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Biography as a literary form.
Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
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Literature.
Authors, English--Biography.
Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as literary form.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PR2894 / .E45 2012

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