David Ellis

Truth About William Shakespeare (eBook, PDF)

Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information.How can biographies of Shakespeare continue to appear when so little is known about him? And when what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why have the majority of the biographies published in the last decade been written by distinguished Shakespeareans who ought to know better? To solve this puzzle, David Ellis looks at the methods that Shakespeare's biographers have used to hide their lack of knowledge. At the same time, by exploring efforts to write a life of Shakespeare along traditional lines, it asks what kind of animal 'biography' really is and how it should be written.Key Features* An expose of the Shakespeare biography industry showing that books which are marketed as biographies of Shakespeare are nothing of the kind. * From this book, the reader can learn all that is directly known about Shakespeare* Asks the reader to think about how we acquire our knowledge of other people and what we ought therefore to expect of biographies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748646685
• Artikelnr.: 38221929

Autorenporträt

David Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

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Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I
1. Rules of the game
2. Bricks without straw
3. Forbears
4. The female line and Catholicism
5. Boyhood and youth
6. Marriage
7. The theatre
8. Patronage, or who's who in the Sonnets
9. Shakespeare and the love of men
10. Shakespeare and the love of women
11. Friends
12. London life
13. Politics
14. Money
15. Retirement and death
16. Post-mortem
PART II
17. Gossip
18. The post-modernist challenge
19. The argument from expertise
20. Trahison des clercs?
Notes
Index.