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Shakespeare the Man
New Decipherings
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2014
Summary
While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of restricting the search for bits and pieces of evidence from his works that seem to match what he may have experienced, these essays focus on the contemporary milieu—political developments, social and theater history, and cultural and religious pressures—as well as the domestic conditions within Shakespeare's family that shaped his personality and are featured in his works. The authors of these essays, employing the tenets of critical theory and practice as well as intuitive and informed insight, endeavor to look behind the masks, thus challenging the reader to adjudicate among the possible, the probable, the likely, and the unlikely. With the exception of the editor’s own piece on Hamlet, Shakespeare the Man: New Decipherings presents previously unpublished essays, inviting the reader to embark upon an intellectual adventure into the fascinating terrain of Shakespeare's mind and art.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-675-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-676-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
278
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Shakespeare’s Playwrights No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter Two: The History of the Shakespeares and the Shakespeares in the Histories No access Pages 17 - 52
Chapter Three: 1592–1594 No access Pages 53 - 66
Chapter Four: Greene, Harvey, Nashe, and the “Making” of Falstaff No access Pages 67 - 84
Chapter Five: “Look in the calendar” No access Pages 85 - 100
Chapter Six: “But I have that within which passeth show” No access Pages 101 - 120
Chapter Seven: “Those lips that love’s own hand did make” No access Pages 121 - 134
Chapter Eight: Shakespeare’s Churches No access Pages 135 - 146
Chapter Nine: Shakespeare and the Rhythms of Devotion No access Pages 147 - 156
Chapter Ten: Outbraving Luther No access Pages 157 - 182
Chapter Eleven: Shakespeare among the Jesuits No access Pages 183 - 198
Chapter Twelve: Was Shakespeare a “Church Papist” or a Prayer Book Anglican? No access Pages 199 - 264
