Contested Will ─ Who Wrote Shakespeare?

ISBN13：9781416541639
出版社：Simon & Schuster
作者：James Shapiro
裝訂／頁數：平裝／339頁
規格：21.6cm*14.0cm*2.5cm (高/寬/厚)
出版日：2011/04/19
關鍵字： Contested Will ─ Who Wrote Shakespeare?、 Contested、 Will、 Who、 Wrote、 Shakespeare、 Simon & Schuster、 James Shapiro、外文書、 Drama、

杜威圖書分類： Drama

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For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays.?Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fascinating story, replete with forgeries, deception, false claimants, ciphers and codes, conspiracy theories—and a stunning failure to grasp the power of the imagination.

As Contested Will makes clear, much more than proper attribution of Shakespeare’s plays is at stake in this authorship controversy. Underlying the arguments over whether Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, or the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare’s plays are fundamental questions about literary genius, specifically about the relationship of life and art. Are the plays (and poems) of Shakespeare a sort of hidden autobiography? Do Hamlet, Macbeth, and the other great plays somehow reveal who wrote them?

Shapiro is the first Shakespeare scholar to examine the authorship controversy and its history in this way, explaining what it means, why it matters, and how it has persisted despite abundant evidence that William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays attributed to him. This is a brilliant historical investigation that will delight anyone interested in Shakespeare and the literary imagination.