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In Shakespeare's shadow, a rogue scholar's quest to reveal the true source behind the world's greatest plays, Michael Blanding

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In Shakespeare's shadow, a rogue scholar's quest to reveal the true source behind the world's greatest plays, Michael Blanding

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-444) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In Shakespeare's shadow

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Michael Blanding

Sub title

a rogue scholar's quest to reveal the true source behind the world's greatest plays

Summary

"What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before. In Shakespeare's Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

This blood condemns -- But thinking makes it so -- Remembering this realm -- Undreamed shores -- Princes' favors -- Blood and revenge -- By any other name -- Wonders of the world abroad -- True love never did run smooth -- It was Greek to me -- All that glisters -- Once more unto the breach -- To be, or not to be -- Full of sound and fury -- Our revels now are ended -- Such stuff as dreams are made on

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