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New Decipherings
Shakespeare the Man
New Decipherings
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While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of restricting the search for bits and pieces of evidence from his works that seem to match what he may have experienced, these essays focus on the contemporary milieu—political developments, social and theater history, and cultural and religious pressures—as well as the domestic conditions within Shakespeare's family that shaped his personality and are featured in his works. The authors of these essays, employing the tenets of critical theory and practice as well as intuitive and informed insight, endeavor to look behind the masks, thus challenging the reader to adjudicate among the possible, the probable, the likely, and the unlikely. With the exception of the editor’s own piece on Hamlet, Shakespeare the Man: New Decipherings presents previously unpublished essays, inviting the reader to embark upon an intellectual adventure into the fascinating terrain of Shakespeare's mind and art.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
R. W. Desai
Shakespeare’s Playwrights
Grace Tiffany
The History of the Shakespeares and the Shakespeares in the Histories
Joseph Candido
1592-1594: Shakespeare’s “Other” Lost Years
R. S. White
Greene, Harvey, Nashe, and the “Making” of Falstaff
Mythili Kaul
“Look in the calendar”: Julius Caesar and Shakespeare’s Cultural-Political Moment
Subhajit Sen Gupta
“But I have that within which passeth show”: Shakespeare’s Ambivalence toward His Profession
R. W. Desai
“Those lips that love’s own hand did make”: Anne Hathaway and Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
Shormishtha Panja
Shakespeare’s Churches
Lisa Hopkins
Shakespeare and the Rhythms of Devotion
Stuart Sillars
Outbraving Luther: Shakespeare’s Final Evolution through the Tragedies into the Last Plays
John O’Meara
Shakespeare among the Jesuits
John Mahon
Was Shakespeare a “Church Papist” or a Prayer Book Anglican?
Charles R. Forker
Index
Contributor Biographies
Product details
| Published | 13 Mar 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 308 |
| ISBN | 9781683938781 |
| Imprint | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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