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.
Table of Content
Introduction
Katherine Scheil and Graham Holderness
Chapter 1. Shakespeare and Marlowe: Re-writing the Relationship
Robert Sawyer
Chapter 2. The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway
Katherine Scheil
Chapter 3. Religion Revisited: William Shakespeare, Nicholas Owen, and the Culture of Doppelbödigkeit
Sonja Fielitz
Chapter 4. To Change the Picture of Shakespeare Biography
Park Honan
Chapter 5. From Biographies to Bardcom
Peter Holland
Chapter 6. Shakespeare Biography and Identity Politics
Lois Potter
Chapter 7. Shakespeare and Biography
René Weis
Chapter 8. Shakeshafte
Rowan Williams
Epilogue
Graham Holderness
About the author
Graham Holderness is the author of numerous books on literary criticism, theory, and scholarship, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama. His most recent works include The Faith of William Shakespeare (Lion Books, 2016), Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Re-writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury, 2014), and the historical fantasy novel Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare, Vampire Hunter (Top Hat Books, 2015).
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