30 great myths about Shakespeare /
Thirty great myths about Shakespeare
Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith.
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
- vi, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Myth 1 Shakespeare was the most popular writer of his time Myth 2 Shakespeare was not well educated Myth 3 Shakespeare's plays should be performed in Elizabethan dress Myth 4 Shakespeare was not interested in having his plays printed Myth 5 Shakespeare never traveled Myth 6 Shakespeare's plays are politically incorrect Myth 7 Shakespeare was a Catholic Myth 8 Shakespeare's plays had no scenery Myth 9 Shakespeare's tragedies are more serious than his comedies Myth 10 Shakespeare hated his wife Myth 11 Shakespeare wrote in the rhythms of everyday speech Myth 12 Hamlet was named after Shakespeare's son Myth 13 The coarse bits of Shakespeare are for the groundlings; the philosophy is for the upper classes Myth 14 Shakespeare was a Stratford playwright Myth 15 Shakespeare was a plagiarist Myth 16 Myth 17 Myth 18 Myth 19 Myth 20 Myth 21 Myth 22 Myth 23 Myth 24 Myth 25 Myth 26 Myth 27 Myth 28 Myth 29 Myth 30 We don't know much about Shakespeare's life Shakespeare wrote alone Shakespeare's sonnets are autobiographical If Shakespeare were writing now, he'd be writing for Hollywood The Tempest was Shakespeare's farewell to the stage Shakespeare had a huge vocabulary Shakespeare's plays are timeless Macbeth is jinxed in the theater Shakespeare did not revise his plays Boy actors played women's roles Shakespeare's plays don't work as movies Yorick's skull was real Queen Elizabeth loved Shakespeare's plays Shakespeare's characters are like real people Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare