Author: Alfred H. WallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Behind the Mask of William Shakespeare
Author: Abel LefrancPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eminent French academic Abel Lefranc released his two-volume Sous le Masque de William Shakespeare (Behind the Mask of William Shakespeare)--an investigation into the true authorship of the Shakespeare canon--in 1918 and 1919. Unencumbered by the national pride and tradition that had encouraged British academics to ascribe the greatest literary works of humankind to the secular saint of Stratford-upon-Avon, Lefranc's refreshing perspective and analysis still resonate one hundred years later. This new translation (2022) incorporates recent scholarship on the authorship question and corrects transcription errors introduced during its wartime composition, the latter being an astounding, multi-year project which involved correspondence across the Channel even as exploding shells could be heard from the outskirts of Paris.
Shakespeare's Face
Author: Alfred H. WallThe True Face of William Shakespeare
Author: Hildegard Hammerschmidt-HummelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Offers a convincing solution to the centuries-old problem of the appearance and identity of William Shakespeare and answers previously open questions concerning what made him abandon his celebrated career, and what may have caused his death.
Behind the Mask
Author: Clarice Von ChimoPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479785547
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Behind the Mask is a book of uncomplicated poems exploring the events and thoughts that truly take place behind the scenes of life; as William Shakespeare best states All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. Written simply and effortlessly, the subjects of love, death, and success are portrayed in honest ways each reader will relate to. The collection ends in an extended poem revealing how many hidden thoughts can stress a mind when the cement mask is finally peeled away.
Behind Shakespeare's Mask
Author: Charles Murray-WillisPublisher: Upso
ISBN: 9781843752455
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In this work Charles Willis argues that the Elizabethan writer George Puttenham may have written the first two published works by 'William Shakespeare', the poems Venus and Adonis (1593) and Lucrece (1594), and they were written as a secret assignment for the Lord Treasurer, Lord Burghley. Willis maintains that Puttenham was Lord Burghley's most skilful writer of Protestant propaganda material, and the name 'William Shakespeare' was used as a pen-name to conceal Puttenham's authorship and his connections with Lord Burghley. Willis argues that it was highly unlikely that the poems could have been written by William Shakspere from Stratford, or could have had any connection with him. The poems were printed by Richard Field, also from Stratford, and according to the historical records, the Field and Shakspere families had been involved in legal disputes between 1556-92. Therefore Richard Field would have known of William Shakspere and his mother Mary (Arden), who during the 1580s had two Arden cousins who were implicated in Catholic plots to kill Queen Elizabeth. Richard Field's print-shop since the 1570s, had had a strict policy of only printing works which promoted the Protestant cause, and Field's first printing commission in 1588 had been a Protestant propaganda paper by Lord Burghley. Field would never have received authorisation or permission to print the poems if they had been written by William Shakspere whose family was linked to two Catholic plots to kill Queen Elizabeth.
Who Killed William Shakespeare?
Author: Simon Andrew StirlingPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075249421X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been concealed. He had become an invisible man, the humble Warwickshire lad who entertained royalty and then faded into obscurity. But his story has been carefully manipulated. In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly critical of the regimes of Elizabeth I and James I. Who Killed William Shakespeare? examines the means, motive and the opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Will Shakespeare had to be 'stopped'. From forensic analysis of his death mask to the hunt for his missing skull, the circumstances of Shakespeare's death are reconstructed and his life reconsidered in the light of fresh discoveries. What emerges is a portrait of a genius who spoke his mind and was silenced by his greatest literary rival.
William Shakespeare
Author: Karl ElzePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Shakespeare Mask
Author: Newton FrohlichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780996048439
Category : Dramatists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the early sixteenth century, a precocious young nobleman draws the attention of the Elizabethan court--and of The Virgin Queen herself. A writer and patron of the arts, Edward de Vere is volatile, controversial--and brilliant. He leaves a trail of women and scandal in his wake. But his plays, when he's in the queen's good graces, charm the court. His sonnets turn feelings into sound. Yet the rules of the court say a nobleman may not publish. An earl's name is too sacred for the theater. If de Vere must write, he must do so anonymously, and employ a runner, an almost illiterate cobbler's son from Stratford, to claim his words. Newton Frohlich, an attorney and the author of the celebrated historical novel 1492, spent fifteen years researching unexplored questions about the poet and playwright we today know as Shakespeare. His is an intimate tour of English castles, Venetian canals, and a complex man who penned the most beloved works of the English language.--
Spakespeare Lost and Found
Author: John M RollettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780956143327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Who Killed William Shakespeare?
Author: Simon StirlingPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075249421X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been concealed. He had become an invisible man, the humble Warwickshire lad who entertained royalty and then faded into obscurity. But his story has been carefully manipulated. In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly critical of the regimes of Elizabeth I and James I. Who Killed William Shakespeare? examines the means, motive and the opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Will Shakespeare had to be ‘stopped’. From forensic analysis of his death mask to the hunt for his missing skull, the circumstances of Shakespeare’s death are reconstructed and his life reconsidered in the light of fresh discoveries. What emerges is a portrait of a genius who spoke his mind and was silenced by his greatest literary rival.