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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade 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
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
