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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 |
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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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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 Shakespearean academics as unimportant or, indeed, of interest only to |
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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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