The truth about William Shakespeare : fact, fiction and modern biographies /
David Ellis.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.
- x, 198 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rules of the game. -- How to make bricks without straw. -- Forebears. -- The female line and Catholicism. -- Boyhood and youth. -- Marriage. -- The theatre. -- Patronage, or, who's who in the sonnets. -- Shakespeare and the love of men. -- Shakespeare and the love of women. -- Friends. -- London life. -- Politics. -- Money. -- Retirement and death. -- Post-ortem. -- Gossip. -- The post-modernist challenge. -- The argument from expertise. -- Final thoughts
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Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism. Biography as a literary form.