Shakespeare--who was he? : the Oxford challenge to the Bard of Avon

Book 1994

"William Shakespeare is the only literary figure whose very identity is a matter of long-standing and continuing dispute. Was he really the glover's son from Stratford-on-Avon? Or was he someone else writing under the pseudonym William Shakespeare? The question has been called the foremost literary problem in world literature and "history's biggest literary whodunnit." Interest in it has never been greater, and that interest is growing now that a...

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ISBN:

9780275948504
0275948501

Description:

xix, 183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-178) and index

Contents:

Part I: The Incumbent: The Man from Stratford: A Strikingly Mundane Life
The Missing Literary Evidence
Shakspere versus Shakespeare
The Case for Will Shakspere as Author
The Ambiguous Testimony of the First Folio
Part II: The Leading Challenger: The Earl of Oxford
The Search for the True Author
Oxford's Literary Life
The Case for Oxford as Author
Oxford's Life Span and Dating the Plays
Oxford Revealed in Shakespere's Plays
Objections to Oxford as Shakespere
Resolving the Authorship Issue
Records of Will Shakespeare's Theater Activities
"Shake-scene," Groatworth, and Chettle
Ben Jonson's Notebook, TImber
The Benezet Test
Notes
Select, Annotated Bibliography for Further Reading
Index

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94011303 //r95

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54829

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