North by Shakespeare : a rogue scholar's quest for the truth behind the Bard's work / Michael Blanding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanding, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship--North theory.

North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?.

North, Thomas.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Authorship.

Genre:

Literary Criticism / Shakespeare.

Physical Description:

viii, 467 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hachette Books, 2021.

Summary:

"A work of gripping non-fiction, North by Shakespeare presents the twinning narratives of rogue scholar Dennis McCarthy, called "the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community," and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the undiscovered source for Shakespeare's plays. For the last fifteen years, Dennis McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true source of Shakespeare's works, with fascinating results. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and other plays and Thomas North's published and unpublished writings-as well as Shakespearean plotlines seemingly lifted straight from North's colorful life. McCarthy's wholly original conclusion is this: Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before-many of them penned on behalf of North's patron Robert Dudley, in his efforts to woo Queen Elizabeth. That bold theory answers many lingering questions about the Bard with compelling new evidence, including a newly unearthed journal of North's travels through France and Italy, filled with locations and details appearing in Shakespeare's plays. North by Shakespeare alternates between the dramatic life of Thomas North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theatre, and academic outsider Dennis 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 highly readable drama, up-ending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his "singular genius.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One This Blood Condemns

ch. Two But Thinking Makes It So

ch. Three Remembering This Realm

ch. Four Undreamed Shores

ch. Five Princes' Favors

ch. Six Blood and Revenge

ch. Seven By Any Other Name

ch. Eight Wonders of the World Abroad

ch. Nine True Love Never Did Run Smooth

ch. Ten It Was Greek to Me

ch. Eleven All That Glisters

ch. Twelve Once More Unto the Breach

ch. Thirteen To Be, or Not to Be

ch. Fourteen Full of Sound and Fury

ch. Fifteen Our Revels Now Are Ended

ch. Sixteen Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780316493246

0316493244

OCLC:

1164502070