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Author: Robert Bearman (Former Head of Archives and Local Studies and now Honorary Fellow, Former Head of Archives and Local Studies and now Honorary Fellow, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.276kg
ISBN: 9780198822240
ISBN 10: 0198822243
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 05 April 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
thought-provoking study ... a valuable resource for scholars. * Around the Globe * an absorbing portrait of Shakespeare's financial life * Jerry Brotton, The Daily Telegraph * scrupulous and comprehensive ... illuminating ... * Jonathan Bate, New Statesman * In this sober, careful, and ruthlessly factual little book Robert Bearman provides a low-keyed but devastating correction to a great deal of airy assertion and sloppy scholarship produced by Shakespeare's biographers, ancient and modern. Bearman politely makes his case without naming the scholars he is correcting, but the urbanity of his performance does not detract from its potency ... This book offers a closely reasoned analysis of such hard data as exists and its conclusions will be difficult to dispute. Future biographers will ignore it at their peril. * Robert D. Hume, Modern Philology *
In this sober, careful, and ruthlessly factual little book Robert Bearman provides a low-keyed but devastating correction to a great deal of airy assertion and sloppy scholarship produced by Shakespeare's biographers, ancient and modern. Bearman politely makes his case without naming the scholars he is correcting, but the urbanity of his performance does not detract from its potency ... This book offers a closely reasoned analysis of such hard data as exists and its conclusions will be difficult to dispute. Future biographers will ignore it at their peril. * Robert D. Hume, Modern Philology * scrupulous and comprehensive ... illuminating ... * Jonathan Bate, New Statesman * an absorbing portrait of Shakespeare's financial life * Jerry Brotton, The Daily Telegraph * thought-provoking study ... a valuable resource for scholars. * Around the Globe *
In this sober, careful, and ruthlessly factual little book Robert Bearman provides a low-keyed but devastating correction to a great deal of airy assertion and sloppy scholarship produced by Shakespeare's biographers, ancient and modern. Bearman politely makes his case without naming the scholars he is correcting, but the urbanity of his performance does not detract from its potency ... This book offers a closely reasoned analysis of such hard data as exists and its conclusions will be difficult to dispute. Future biographers will ignore it at their peril. * Robert D. Hume, Modern Philology * scrupulous and comprehensive ... illuminating ... * Jonathan Bate, New Statesman * an absorbing portrait of Shakespeare's financial life * Jerry Brotton, The Daily Telegraph * thought-provoking study ... a valuable resource for scholars. * Around the Globe *
Author Information
Robert Bearman was formerly Head of Archives and Local Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He has been General Editor of the Publications of the Dugdale Society since 2002.
