30 great myths about Shakespeare

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30 great myths about Shakespeare

Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith

Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

  • hbk.
  • pbk. : alk. paper

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Thirty great myths about Shakespeare

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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hbk. ISBN 9780470658505

内容説明

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material-or its absence-can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.

目次

  • Introduction 1 Myth 1 Shakespeare was the most popular writer of his time 6 Myth 2 Shakespeare was not well educated 11 Myth 3 Shakespeare's plays should be performed in Elizabethan dress 18 Myth 4 Shakespeare was not interested in having his plays printed 26 Myth 5 Shakespeare never traveled 34 Myth 6 Shakespeare's plays are politically incorrect 40 Myth 7 Shakespeare was a Catholic 47 Myth 8 Shakespeare's plays had no scenery 54 Myth 9 Shakespeare's tragedies are more serious than his comedies 60 Myth 10 Shakespeare hated his wife 66 Myth 11 Shakespeare wrote in the rhythms of everyday speech 72 Myth 12 Hamlet was named after Shakespeare's son 80 Myth 13 The coarse bits of Shakespeare are for the groundlings
  • the philosophy is for the upper classes 86 Myth 14 Shakespeare was a Stratford playwright 94 Myth 15 Shakespeare was a plagiarist 99 Myth 16 We don't know much about Shakespeare's life 106 Myth 17 Shakespeare wrote alone 113 Myth 18 Shakespeare's sonnets are autobiographical 119 Myth 19 If Shakespeare were writing now, he'd be writing forHollywood 125 Myth 20 The Tempest was Shakespeare's farewell to the stage 130 Myth 21 Shakespeare had a huge vocabulary 137 Myth 22 Shakespeare's plays are timeless 143 Myth 23 Macbeth is jinxed in the theater 150 Myth 24 Shakespeare did not revise his plays 156 Myth 25 Boy actors played women's roles 163 Myth 26 Shakespeare's plays don't work as movies 169 Myth 27 Yorick's skull was real 175 Myth 28 Queen Elizabeth loved Shakespeare's plays 183 Myth 29 Shakespeare's characters are like real people 190 Myth 30 Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare 196 Coda 202 Further Reading 207 Index 211
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pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780470658512

内容説明

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material-or its absence-can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.

目次

  • Introduction 1 Myth 1 Shakespeare was the most popular writer of his time 6 Myth 2 Shakespeare was not well educated 11 Myth 3 Shakespeare's plays should be performed in Elizabethan dress 18 Myth 4 Shakespeare was not interested in having his plays printed 26 Myth 5 Shakespeare never traveled 34 Myth 6 Shakespeare's plays are politically incorrect 40 Myth 7 Shakespeare was a Catholic 47 Myth 8 Shakespeare's plays had no scenery 54 Myth 9 Shakespeare's tragedies are more serious than his comedies 60 Myth 10 Shakespeare hated his wife 66 Myth 11 Shakespeare wrote in the rhythms of everyday speech 72 Myth 12 Hamlet was named after Shakespeare's son 80 Myth 13 The coarse bits of Shakespeare are for the groundlings
  • the philosophy is for the upper classes 86 Myth 14 Shakespeare was a Stratford playwright 94 Myth 15 Shakespeare was a plagiarist 99 Myth 16 We don't know much about Shakespeare's life 106 Myth 17 Shakespeare wrote alone 113 Myth 18 Shakespeare's sonnets are autobiographical 119 Myth 19 If Shakespeare were writing now, he'd be writing forHollywood 125 Myth 20 The Tempest was Shakespeare's farewell to the stage 130 Myth 21 Shakespeare had a huge vocabulary 137 Myth 22 Shakespeare's plays are timeless 143 Myth 23 Macbeth is jinxed in the theater 150 Myth 24 Shakespeare did not revise his plays 156 Myth 25 Boy actors played women's roles 163 Myth 26 Shakespeare's plays don't work as movies 169 Myth 27 Yorick's skull was real 175 Myth 28 Queen Elizabeth loved Shakespeare's plays 183 Myth 29 Shakespeare's characters are like real people 190 Myth 30 Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare 196 Coda 202 Further Reading 207 Index 211

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