Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-688-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 110 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 229 g

Reihe: Shakespeare &

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franssen, Paul

Edmondson, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Edmondson, Paul
Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He is co-series editor for Palgrave Macmillan’s Shakespeare Handbooks, and co-supervisory editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. His publications include: Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Text and Its Theatrical Life (Palgrave, 2005), with Stanley Wells, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Oxford, 2004) and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy (Cambridge, 2013), and, with Paul Prescott and Erin Sullivan, A Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Franssen, Paul
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).

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).