Preface
Introduction
Part One: Who is Shakespeare? What is he?
1: A Life of Anecdote
2: Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems?
3: The Authorship Controversy
4: Marlowe's Ghost
5: Shakespeare's Peculiarity
Part Two: The Shakespeare Effect
6: The Original Genius
7: The National Poet
8: All the World his Stage
9: From Character to Icon
10: The Laws of the Shakespearean Universe
Afterword
Notes
Index
Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale, and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
"Bate offers an excellent resource for students of English
literature and the Elizabethan era in this thoughtful,
well-researched and even playful explication of Shakespeare's plays
and sonnets."-Publishers Weekly
"Jonathan Bate, the sanest, shrewdest scholar of Shakespeare at
present, has written the just, liberal, unhostaged book that one
has been waiting for."-James Wood, Guardian
"A shrewd, nimbly written book, one of the few on its subject that
will be read and enjoyed off-campus."-Terry Eagleton,
Independent
"Ambitious, exceptionally well informed and immensely engaging . .
. Bate has, to an exceptional degree, the virtue of readability. He
writes with unflagging energy, intelligence, wit and
enthusiasm."-Stanley Wells, Daily Telegraph
"The theme of this wonderfully written, diverse book is diversity
itself, and its range serves only to confirm the disparate nature
of Shakespeare's achievement."-Peter Ackroyd, The Times
"What made Shakespeare 'Shakespeare'? How much do we really know
about his life? How do we know that he really wrote the plays
attributed to him? What defines his singularity? No book on the
market answers these questions better than The Genius of
Shakespeare."-James S. Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life
of William Shakespeare
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