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30 great myths about Shakespeare / Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith.

By: Maguire, Laurie EMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013Description: vi, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780470658505 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780470658512 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781118324868 (epdf/ebook); 9781118324844 (emobi); 9781118324875 (epub); 9781118326770 (wiley online library)Other title: Thirty great myths about ShakespeareSubject(s): English dramaDDC classification: 822.33

Contents:

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

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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

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