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"O'Sullivan's ingenious, wide-ranging compilation records a surprising wealth of novels, plays and stories"
Book Description
For generations scholars have labored scrupulously to try to separate the facts of William Shakespeare's life from the myths that have entangled them. However, those who have written fictions about the bard have operated under no such constraints. They offer solutions to the identities of W.H. and the Dark Lady, suggest Shakespeare's role in the shaping of the King James Bible, and trace his relationships with Sir Thomas Lucy, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I, Kit Marlowe and Ben Jonson. And they speculate endlessly about Shakespeare's pets and poaching, his sources and inspiration, his melancholy and death. From Alexandre Duval's Shakespeare (1804) to Anthony Burgess's "The Muse," this is an anthology of nineteen fictional depictions of Shakespeare. They include Edward H. Warren's account of Shakespeare playing the stock market on Wall Street (with the Three Weird Sisters making stock predictions near a blast furnace in New Jersey), Leon Rooke's vivid memoir of the Bard's dog, and the works of such notables as George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling and Edward Bond are included.
Shakespeare's Other Lives: An Anthology of Fictional Depictions of the Bard FROM THE PUBLISHER
For generations scholars have labored scrupulously to try to separate the facts of William Shakespeareᄑs life from the myths that have entangled them. However, those who have written fictions about the bard have operated under no such constraints. They offer solutions to the identities of W.H. and the Dark Lady, suggest Shakespeareᄑs role in the shaping of the King James Bible, and trace his relationships with Sir Thomas Lucy, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I, Kit Marlowe and Ben Jonson. And they speculate endlessly about Shakespeareᄑs pets and poaching, his sources and inspiration, his melancholy and death. From Alexandre Duvalᄑs Shakespeare (1804) to Anthony Burgessᄑs ᄑThe Muse,ᄑ this is an anthology of nineteen fictional depictions of Shakespeare. They include Edward H. Warrenᄑs account of Shakespeare playing the stock market on Wall Street (with the Three Weird Sisters making stock predictions near a blast furnace in New Jersey), Leon Rookeᄑs vivid memoir of the Bardᄑs dog, and the works of such notables as George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling and Edward Bond are included.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
A collection of 19 fictional depictions of Shakespeare published
between 1775 and 1983, by authors including George Bernard Shaw,
Rudyard Kipling, and Jorge Luis Borges. Selections include excerpts
and complete pieces. Includes an introduction.
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