Overview

New Shakespeare biographies are published every year, though very little new documentary evidence has come to light. Inevitably speculative, these biographies straddle the line between fact and fiction. Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction within Shakespeare’s biography, across a range of subjects including feminism, class politics, wartime propaganda, children’s fiction, and religion, expanding beyond the Anglophone world to include countries such as Germany and Spain, from the seventeenth century to present day.

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Author:   Paul Franssen ,  Paul Edmondson
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Edition:   4th edition
Volume:   6
ISBN:  

9781789206876

ISBN 10:   1789206871
Pages:   110
Publication Date:   09 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Paul Franssen and Paul Edmondson Chapter 1. Shakespeare’s Afterlives: Raising and Laying the Ghost of Authority Paul Franssen Biography Chapter 2. The Debate about Shakespeare’s Character, Morals, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany Wolfgang Weiss Chapter 3. ‘Talk to Him’: Wilde, His Friends, and Shakespeare's Sonnets Reiko Oya Chapter 4. Fighting over Shakespeare: Commemorating the 1916 Tercentenary in Wartime Clara Calvo Chapter 5. The Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium Katherine Scheil Chapter 6. Biographical Aftershocks: Shakespeare and Marlowe in the Wake of 9/11 Robert Sawyer Fiction Chapter 7. Performance and Life Analogies in Shakespeare Novels for Young Readers Marga Munkelt Chapter 8. Shakespeare as Character in Two Works by José Carlos Somoza Ángel-Luis Pujante and Noemí Vera Chapter 9. The Bard-Baiting Model in Upstart Crow and Something Rotten Richard O’Brien Select Bibliography Index

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“This is a lively and wide-ranging collection that is sure to please the scholarly as well as the general reader, tempted by contemporary imaginings of a four-hundred-year-old bard.” • Modern Language Review

This is a lively and wide-ranging collection that is sure to please the scholarly as well as the general reader, tempted by contemporary imaginings of a four-hundred-year-old bard. * Modern Language Review

Author Information

Paul Franssen has taught British at the English Department of Utrecht University since 1979, where he obtained his PhD in 1987. He has published numerous articles on English literature, mainly of the early-modern period, and edits Folio, the journal of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries. He co-edited The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature (Fairleigh Dickinson U. P, 1999), Shakespeare and European Politics (University of Delaware Press, 2008), and Shakespeare and War (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008).

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