Truth About William Shakespeare

Truth About William Shakespeare PDF

Author: David Ellis

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0748653880

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A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information

Shakespeare and Macbeth

Shakespeare and Macbeth PDF

Author: Stewart Ross

Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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Historical finding and current critical thinking are woven together to tell the fascinating story of how Shakespeare conceived and wrote one of his greatest plays. As readers watch the production being mounted, Ross's narrative and Karpinski's carefully researched illustrations bring Shakespeare's world to vivid life. Full-color and black-and-white illustrations.

Shakespeare Suppressed

Shakespeare Suppressed PDF

Author: Katherine Chiljan

Publisher:

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780982940556

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Non-fiction research book about Shakespeare, the man and his works, based on contemporary evidence. This evidence conflicts with the orthodox view; for example, contemporary evidence shows that ?William Shakespeare? was a pen name, and that his plays were written far earlier than believed. The book also deconstructs the case of the Stratford Man as Shakespeare, and presents a theory how and why the two different identities were later confused. 2nd edition, 448 pages, footnotes, plates.

In Shakespeare's Shadow

In Shakespeare's Shadow PDF

Author: Michael Blanding

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 0316493287

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The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives. What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before. In Shakespeare's Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his "singular genius." Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction

The Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman

The Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman PDF

Author: Jackie French

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1460705130

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THE DIARY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, GENTLEMAN is part comedy, part love story, the threads of Shakespeare's life drawn from his plays. Could the world's greatest writer truly put down his pen forever to become a gentleman? He was a boy who escaped small town life to be the most acclaimed playwright of the land. A lover whose sonnets still sing 400 years later; a glover's apprentice who became a gentleman. But was he happy with his new riches? Who was the woman he truly loved? The world knows the name of William Shakespeare. This book reveals the man - lover, son and poet. Based on new documentary evidence, as well as textual examination of his plays, this fascinating book gives a tantalising glimpse at what might have been: the other hands that helped craft those plays, the secrets that must ever be hidden but - just possibly - may now be told. Ages 12+

Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom

Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom PDF

Author: Charles Beauclerk

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0802197140

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“A book for anyone who loves Shakespeare . . . One of the most scandalous and potentially revolutionary theories about the authorship of these immortal works.” —Mark Rylance, First Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any language. Who was William Shakespeare? Critically acclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching the authorship question, and if the plays were discovered today, he argues, we would see them for what they are—shocking political works written by a court insider, someone with the monarch’s indulgence, shielded from repression in an unstable time of armada and reformation. But the author’s identity was quickly swept under the rug after his death. The official history—of an uneducated merchant writing in near obscurity, and of a virginal queen married to her country—dominated for centuries. Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom delves deep into the conflicts and personalities of Elizabethan England, as well as the plays themselves, to tell the true story of the “Soul of the Age.” “Beauclerk’s learned, deep scholarship, compelling research, engaging style and convincing interpretation won me completely. He has made me view the whole Elizabethan world afresh. The plays glow with new life, exciting and real, infused with the soul of a man too long denied his inheritance.” —Sir Derek Jacobi

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare PDF

Author: Ari Berk

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 0763647942

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Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.

The Truth Will Out

The Truth Will Out PDF

Author: Brenda James

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1315288591

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The question of who wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare’s life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing. How could a man who left school at the age of 13, and apparently never travelled abroad have authored the incomparable Sonnets or so intricately described Renaissance Venice? Shakespeare ‘candidates’ abound, among them Sir Francis Bacon, The Earl of Oxford, even Queen Elizabeth I herself, but none have stood up to serious scrutiny. Until now.... This remarkable, intriguing, and provocative book offers a completely plausible new candidate; Sir Henry Neville.