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Shakespeare's literary lives : the author as character in fiction and film
- Title
- Shakespeare's literary lives : the author as character in fiction and film / Paul Franssen.
- Author
- Franssen, Paul, 1955-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- ©2016
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book is not about Shakespeare. That is to say, it is not concerned with the playwright, born in 1564, who made a career in London, and died in his native Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616; nor does it deal with his works. At best, Shakespeare, thus understood, plays a marginal role in this study. What I am concerned with, in other words, is not essential Shakespeare, but his fictional afterlives: how subsequent generations of creative writers have tried to make sense of his life, his works, and the interrelationship between them. Shakespeare, thus understood, is truly 'myriad- minded', and has led an infinity of lives. He has been a Protestant, a Catholic, a Jew and an agnostic; a philanderer and a faithful husband; gay, bisexual, and straight; revolutionary and conservative; black and white; male and female. As one of the icons of Western literature, multiple, often diametrically opposite fictions have been devised around his name. Some of these have been disguised as facts, but most fictional representations are easy to distinguish from serious biographical studies"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Shakespeare's ghosts -- 2. William the Conqueror -- 3. Stratford to London -- 4. Wilde imaginings -- 5. Faith -- 6. Travels -- 7. Not of an age -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-3295
- ISBN
- 9781107125612
- 1107125618
- LCCN
- 2015040731
- OCLC
- 914219655
- Author
- Franssen, Paul, 1955- author.
- Title
- Shakespeare's literary lives : the author as character in fiction and film / Paul Franssen.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-3295