TY - BOOK AU - Maltby,Arthur TI - Shakespeare as a challenge for literary biography: a history of biographies of Shakespeare since 1898 SN - 9780773421080 AV - PR2894 .M34 2009eb U1 - 822.3/3 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Lewiston, N.Y. PB - Edwin Mellen Press KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Dramatists, English KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Biography KW - History and criticism KW - English prose literature KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Prose anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Biographie (Genre littéraire) KW - Biographies KW - biographies (literary works) KW - aat KW - biography (general genre) KW - DRAMA KW - Shakespeare KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - fast KW - Early modern KW - Literature KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Problems, Criteria and Sources; Chapter 1 -- The Philosophy of Literary Biography; Chapter 2 -- Methodology: Difficulties in Writing a Life of Shakespeare; Chapter 3 -- Facts, Traditions, Theories: An Overview; Part II: Shakespearean Biography since the Late Nineteenth Century; Chapter 4 -- Lee to Chambers (1898-1929); Chapter 5 -- Chambers to Schoenbaum (1930-1969); Chapter 6 -- Schoenbaum to Honan (1970-1998); Chapter 7 -- Park Honan and the Next Decade (1998- ); Chapter 8 -- Heretical Lives: Protagonists and AnalysisPart III: Discussion and Summation; Chapter 9 -- Dialogues; Chapter 10 -- 'Something of Shakespeare was in that'; Notes; Bibliography; Index N2 - This book argues that, despite the quantity of writing and record searching, Shakespearean biographies remain curiously unsatisfactory, even contradictory UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=442486 ER -