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Author : Jon Benson
Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis The Reader's Companion to the Death of Shakespeare by : Jon Benson
Download or read book The Reader's Companion to the Death of Shakespeare written by Jon Benson. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Benson
Release : 2015-09-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Reader's Companion to The Death of Shakespeare by : Jon Benson
Download or read book The Reader's Companion to The Death of Shakespeare written by Jon Benson. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical record for William Shakespeare being bare, The Death of Shakespeare imagines how the 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the plays, with occasional help from Shakespeare. The Reader's Companion to The Death of Shakespeare contains notes made while writing the novel that was distilled into The Reader’s Companion to help separate fact from fiction.
Author : Kathryn Harkup
Release : 2020-03-05
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 241/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Death By Shakespeare by : Kathryn Harkup
Download or read book Death By Shakespeare written by Kathryn Harkup. This book was released on 2020-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the chances of seeing a dead or dying body on the way home from the theatre were high. It was also a time of important scientific progress. Shakespeare kept pace with anatomical and medical advances, and he included the latest scientific discoveries in his work, from blood circulation to treatments for syphilis. He certainly didn't shy away from portraying the reality of death on stage, from the brutal to the mundane, and the spectacular to the silly. Elizabethan London provides the backdrop for Death by Shakespeare, as Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die. Was death by snakebite as serene as Shakespeare makes out? Could lack of sleep have killed Lady Macbeth? Can you really murder someone by pouring poison in their ear? Kathryn investigates what actual events may have inspired Shakespeare, what the accepted scientific knowledge of the time was, and how Elizabethan audiences would have responded to these death scenes. Death by Shakespeare will tell you all this and more in a rollercoaster of Elizabethan carnage, poison, swordplay and bloodshed, with an occasional death by bear-mauling for good measure.
Author : Simon Palfrey
Release : 2016
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 474/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Dead by : Simon Palfrey
Download or read book Shakespeare's Dead written by Simon Palfrey. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book] reveals the unique ways inwhich Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death, with particular reference to the plague which ravaged Britain during his lifetime, and against the divisive background of the Reformation. But it also shows how death on stage is different from death in real life. The dead come to life, ghosts haunt the living, and scenes of mourning are subverted by the fact that the supposed corpse still breathes."--Back cover.
Author : Jon Benson
Release : 2022-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Death of Shakespeare Part Two by : Jon Benson
Download or read book The Death of Shakespeare Part Two written by Jon Benson. This book was released on 2022-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have wondered how William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon could have written the plays we associate with his name. Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Sir Derek Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and many others, have concluded that William Shakespeare did not write the plays. But if he didn't, who did? And if someone else was the greatest author who ever lived, why was Shakespeare given the credit? The Death of Shakespeare explains how this happened, and why the Bard of Avon paid with his life for his part in, to use the words of Henry James, "the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world."
