The Fact Or Fiction Behind Shakespeare

Author : David Ellis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748653880
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth About William Shakespeare written by David Ellis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information

Author : John Casson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445654679
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare written by John Casson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?

Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Macbeth written by Stewart Ross and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Katherine Chiljan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982940556
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Suppressed written by Katherine Chiljan and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michael Blanding
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316493287
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Shakespeare's Shadow written by Michael Blanding and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Jackie French
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1460705130
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman written by Jackie French and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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+

Author : Charles Beauclerk
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197140
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom written by Charles Beauclerk and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Author : Jude Morgan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250025044
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of William Shakespeare written by Jude Morgan and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2014 There are so few established facts about how the son of a glove maker from Warwickshire became one of the greatest writers of all time that some people doubt he could really have written so many astonishing plays. We know that he married Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant and six years older than he, at the age of eighteen, and that one of their children died of the plague. We know that he left Stratford to seek his fortune in London, and eventually succeeded. He was clearly an unwilling craftsman, ambitious actor, resentful son, almost good-enough husband. But when and how did he also become a genius? The Secret Life of William Shakespeare pulls back the curtain to imagine what it might have really been like to be Shakespeare before a seemingly ordinary man became a legend. In the hands of acclaimed historical novelist Jude Morgan, this is a brilliantly convincing story of unforgettable richness, warmth, and immediacy.

Author : Ari Berk
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763647942
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Ari Berk and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.

Author : Alfred C. Calmour
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330900130
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fact and Fiction About Shakespeare With Some Account of the Playhouses, Players, and Playwrights of His Period (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred C. Calmour and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fact and Fiction About Shakespeare With Some Account of the Playhouses, Players, and Playwrights of His Period So many attempts have been made to pom tray the character of William Shakespeare and elucidate the text of his works, so much material has been collected and published by explorers in the field of Shakespearean lore, that little remains to be recorded by later chroniclers. In this account of the great dramatic poet and i)layer, I fear I must rely for interest more upon the manner in which I have marshalled my gleanings than upon the matter gleaned. Of no man has so much that is unreliable been waitten as about William Shakespeare. He lias been painted as a flawless divinity devoid of those traits we attribute to common humanity, and he has been depicted as a slothful drunkard with Falstaffian proclivities. That which I have written has been restricted to recorded evidences, and inspired by such information as I have acquired in the com se of a labour of love. And if, by my narrative, I have directed any person how to become better acquainted with Shakespeares work, and have thus awakened a corresponding enthusiasm for the author of some of the noblest and most beautiful thoughts in the English language, I shall, in some small measm-e, have repaid the deep debt of gratitude I owe to our ever-lidng poet. Alfred C.Calmour Stratford-on-Avon, 1894. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.