The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies

by David Ellis

2021-05-27 07:38:12

A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information.How can biographies of Shakespeare continue to appear when so little is known about him? And when what is known has been in the public domain for s... Read more
A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information.How can biographies of Shakespeare continue to appear when so little is known about him? And when what is known has been in the public domain for so long? In the past decade, the majority of these biographies have been published by distinguished Shakespeareans - shouldn''t they know better? To solvethis puzzle, David Ellis looks at the methods that Shakespeare''s biographers have used to hide their lack of knowledge. At the same time, by exploring efforts to write a life of Shakespeare along traditional lines, it asks what kind of animal ''biography'' really is and how it should bewritten. Less

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David Ellis is the author of seven novels, including Line of Vision for which he won the Edgar Award. An attorney from Chicago, he currently serves as Counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of R...

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