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Autore |
Leahy William |
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Shakespeare and His Authors [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question |
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London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010 |
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1-282-87319-9 |
9786612873195 |
1-4411-1630-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and presentations |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Life of the Author; 1. On not Knowing Shakespeare (and on Shakespeare not Knowing): Romanticism, the Authorship Question and English Literature; 2. Malfolio: Foul Papers on the Shakespeare Authorship Question; 3. The Authorship Question: An Historian's Perspective; 4. The Distraction of 'Freud': Literature, Psychoanalysis and the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy; 5. No Biography: Shakespeare, Author; 6. Shakespearean Selves; 7. Shakinomics; or, the Shakespeare Authorship Question and the Undermining of Traditional Authority |
8. Fighting over Shakespeare's Authorship: Identity, Power and Academic Debate9. Mark Rylance (Former Artistic Director, Globe Theatre, London); 10. Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic Director, Globe Theatre, London); Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Shakespeare Authorship question - the question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays and who the man we know as Shakespeare was - is a subject which fascinates millions of people the world over and can be seen as a major cultural phenomenon. However, much discussion of the question exists on the very margins of academia, deemed by most |
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Shakespearean academics as unimportant or, indeed, of interest only to conspiracy theorists. Yet, many academics find the Authorship question interesting and worthy of analysis in theoretical and philosophical terms. This collection brings together leading litera |
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