The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-1594

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Yale University Press, 1 janv. 1997 - 256 pages
In this account of the first thirty years of Shakespeare's life, Eric Sams controverts all orthodox editions, biographies and reference books. He reveals how, in conventional Shakespeare scholarship, the reality of the playwright's youth has been concealed within a web of elaborate literary theories which misrepresent his life and work, and reject, ignore, or misdate his early plays.

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Table des matières

II
3
IV
11
VII
25
VIII
31
XI
39
XIII
49
XV
60
The Parnassus Plays 886
79
The Taming of A Shrew
136
The Troublesome Reign of King John
146
Contention and True Tragedy
154
Faire Em and Locrine
163
Mans Wit and The Dialogue of Dives
167
Early Start and Revision
169
Bad Quartos BQ and Memorial Reconstruction by Actors MRA
173
Source Plays SP Derivative Plays DP and Plagiarism
180

XVII
82
Willobie his Avisa
95
The Sonnets
103
The ActorPlaywright of the 1590s
114
the Noted Weed
116
Ur Hamlet
121
Hamlet 1603
125
Appendix
131
ХХХІІІ Dating and Collaboration
185
Stylometry
189
Handwriting
193
The Documents 15001594
197
Bibliography
227
Index
243
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À propos de l'auteur (1997)

Eric Sams has published over one hundred articles, essays, and reviews on the subject of dating and identifying Shakespeare's plays and is the editor of Shakespeare's Edmund Ironside, which he identified as Shakespeare's lost play. He is also a musicologist and world authority on lieder.

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