Chasing Shakespeares

Author : Sarah Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439122199
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Shakespeares written by Sarah Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an author the San Francisco Chronicle hails as "daring and splendid" comes an exhilarating novel of passion and ideas that cuts to the heart of one of literature's most fascinating and enduring mysteries: the enigma of Shakespeare. Meet Joe Roper, tough-minded young graduate student, who has been lucky enough to land a job cataloging the famed Kellogg Collection of Elizabethan texts and curiosities. Joe's been passionate about Shakespeare since he read a duct-taped paperback at age nine and found the witches, warriors, murders, and ghosts as much fun as Stephen King, but his working-class roots make him a fish out of water in the academic world. He is seemingly as far from adventure as it's possible to be -- until the delicious Posy Gould enters, stage right. A glamorous rising star at Harvard, she insists that a letter Joe has found, signed by one W. Shakespeare of Stratford, is a career-making discovery for them both -- because the letter says Shakespeare didn't write the plays. To Joe's mind, the letter is a forgery. When Posy insists they test it, the two literary sleuths head for England to prove their clashing theories. But they find themselves in a world where the London Eye looks out over Shakespeare's city, Hollywood producers rub elbows with Elizabethan spies, and mystery shadows the heart of Westminster Abbey and the lanes of rural England. And Joe and Posy find that, when you start chasing Shakespeares, what you find is not only who he was, but who you are, and how far you're willing to go.... A first-rate mystery from one of the masters of the genre, Chasing Shakespeares is also a literary shell game, a love story, and a profound meditation on identity and ownership. Sarah Smith has created a novel that rivals A. S. Byatt's Possession in its rich and fast-moving blend of literary history and page-turning suspense.

Author : John C. Meagher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639931
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuing Shakespeare's Dramaturgy written by John C. Meagher and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Shakespeare studied in this book is Shakespeare the playmaker, engaged in every step of the process from the first draft of the text to the performance before a live audience. This, the author contends, is the Shakespeare that is most essential, the Shakespeare who should be known as the foundation underlying any other treatment of the plays, and the Shakespeare most exciting and rewarding to pursue."--Jacket.

Author : Sarah Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951636173
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Shakespeares written by Sarah Smith and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two graduate students, not alike in dignity. Joe Roper is a poor boy from Vermont, an aspiring Shakespeare biographer, who's found a letter from William Shakespeare--saying he didn't write the plays. Posy's a Hollywood producer's daughter from Harvard. She's never met a high concept she didn't like, and she likes this one.Posy wants to expose Shakespeare as a fraud and make the movie. Joe wants to save Shakespeare.The two literary sleuths head for London to prove their clashing theories. But they find themselves in a world where the London Eye looks out over Shakespeare's city, Hollywood producers rub elbows with Elizabethan spies, and mystery shadows the heart of Westminster Abbey and the lanes of rural England.And Joe and Posy find that, when you start chasing Shakespeares, what you find is not only who he was, but who you are, and how far you're willing to go...

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107495024
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture written by Robert Shaughnessy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

Author : Sarah Smith
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1618730223
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Shakespearean Poem? written by Sarah Smith and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an obscure old volume in the British Library, bestselling mystery writer Sarah Smith found an ancient poem. Who wrote it? Ex-English professor Smith writes a snarky and accessible preface that introduces the reader to authorship studies and, with deduction worthy of Sherlock Holmes, she identifies the writer of the poem as the major alternate Shakespeare candidate, Edward de Vere.

Author : Paul Franssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107125618
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Literary Lives written by Paul Franssen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Franssen investigates the use of Shakespeare as a fictional character in different literary genres, periods and cultures.

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107171725
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction written by Andrew James Hartley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : RLK
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1648043992
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Shakespeare written by RLK and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing Shakespeare By: RLK Janice Gardner as a reporter seeks only truth, all the while searching for the elusive author A. Shakespeare. Her adventures take the reader to such places as the Middle East, Africa and America. Share her adventures with family and lovers, along with heartbreaks and good times. But the past would become her biggest challenge, both personally and professionally.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: