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Nine lives of William Shakespeare / Graham Holderness.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holderness, Graham, author.
- Series:
- Shakespeare now!
- Shakespeare Now!
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, New York : Continuum, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We know relatively little about Shakespeare's life, and yet it continues to fascinate us. This new biography of Shakespeare identifies and expounds the many possible lives' that can reasonably be drawn around the basic facts, traditions and literary remains of his legacy. Graham Holderness takes a hard and fresh look at the facts, the traditions, and the possible relations between a life and the works that life created.
- Contents:
- Contents; General Editors' Preface to the Second-Wave of the Series; General Editors' Preface; Introduction; LIFE ONE; Shakespeare the Writer; Story: 'The Shakespeare Code'; LIFE TWO; 'An Actor's Art': Shakespeare the Player; Memoir: 'Master Shakespeare's Instructions to the Actors'; LIFE THREE; Shakespeare the Butcher Boy; Memoir: 'Some further account of the life &c. of Mr William Shakespear'; LIFE FOUR; Shakespeare the Businessman; LIFE FOUR; Story: 'Best for Winter'; LIFE FIVE; Shakespeare in Love: 'Husband, I come'; Memoir: 'Shakespeare's Ring: First Circle'; LIFE SIX
- Shakespeare in Love: 'Fair Friend'Story: 'The Adventure of Shakespeare's Ring'; LIFE SEVEN; Shakespeare in Love: 'A female evil'; Story: 'Shakespeare's Ring: Full Circle'; LIFE EIGHT; Shakespeare the Catholic; Story: 'He dyed a papist'; LIFE NINE; Shakespeare's Face: 'The mind's construction'; Fable: 'An Account of a Voyage to Bardolo'; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-212) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4411-6846-X
- 1-283-30788-X
- 9786613307880
- 1-4411-9745-1
- OCLC:
- 761957876
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