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Shakespeare as a challenge for literary biography : a history of biographies of Shakespeare since 1898 / Arthur Maltby ; with a foreword by Park Honan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773421080
  • 0773421084
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespeare as a challenge for literary biography.DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3 22
LOC classification:
  • PR2894 .M34 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: This book argues that, despite the quantity of writing and record searching, Shakespearean biographies remain curiously unsatisfactory, even contradictory.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.

Print version record.

This book argues that, despite the quantity of writing and record searching, Shakespearean biographies remain curiously unsatisfactory, even contradictory.

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

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