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.
Biography as a literary form. Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism. Biography as a literary form. Authors, English--Biography. Literature. Authors, English--Biography. Biography as a literary form. Biografik Biography as literary form.