The truth about William Shakespeare : fact, fiction and modern biographies
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The truth about William Shakespeare : fact, fiction and modern biographies
Edinburgh University Press, c2012
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hardback ISBN 9780748646661
内容説明
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
目次
- 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.
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780748646678
内容説明
This is a polemical attack on how recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information. How is it that biographies of Shakespeare can continue to appear when so little is known about him, and what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why is it that a majority of the biographies published in the last decade have been written by distinguished Shakespeareans who ought to know better? This book attempts to solve this puzzle by examining the methods the 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 beast biography really is and how it can ethically be approached. From this book, the reader can learn all that is directly known about Shakespeare. It exposes the lie of the Shakespeare biography industry where books marketed as biographies are nothing of the kind. It questions how we acquire our knowledge of other people and what an ethical expectation of a biography could be.
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