Maguire, Laurie
30 Great Myths about Shakespeare
Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material—or its absence—can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.
Keywords: Shakespeare, Hamlet, Macbeth, Elizabethan, Renaissance, Comedies, Tragedies, biography, Stratford, Globe Theatre
- Author(s)
- Maguire, Laurie
- Smith, Emma
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 224 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118324875
- Printed ISBN
- 9780470658512