In Shakespeare's Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Shakespeare's Shadow write by Michael Blanding. This book was released on 2021-03-30. In Shakespeare's Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives. What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before. In Shakespeare's Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his "singular genius." Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction
"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North
"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North write by Dennis McCarthy. This book was released on 2018. "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text.
Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal
Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal write by Dennis McCarthy. This book was released on 2021-02-11. Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes available a little known early modern journal kept by a member of Queen Mary’s delegation to Rome, its purpose to win papal approval of England’s return to Roman Catholicism. The book provides details of the six-month journey, a discussion of the manuscript, and an identification of the twenty-year-old Thomas North as its author. It also points to numerous connections between the journal and the plays of Shakespeare, extending the playwright’s debt beyond North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives and revealing how the journal served as a template for The Winter’s Tale and Henry VIII. Both, the authors argue, were written by North during the Marian years (1554-58) and later adapted by Shakespeare. Like the authors’ 2018 “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels” by George North,this book presents original work using digital research tools, including massive databases and plagiarism software. The earlier book garnered worldwide attention, with a front-page story in The New York Times.
To Be or Not To Be
To Be or Not To Be - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Be or Not To Be write by Ryan North. This book was released on 2016-09-06. To Be or Not To Be available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestelling author of Romeo and/or Juliet and How to Invent Everything, the greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure! When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he gave the world just one possible storyline, drawn from a constellation of billions of alternate narratives. And now you can correct that horrible mistake! Play as Hamlet and avenge your father's death—with ruthless efficiency this time. Play as Ophelia and change the world with your scientific brilliance. Play as Hamlet's father and die on the first page, then investigate your own murder… as a ghost! Featuring over 100 different endings, each illustrated by today's greatest artists, incredible side quests, fun puzzles, and a book-within-a-book instead of a play-within-a-play, To Be or Not To Be offers up new surprises and secrets every time you read it. You decide this all sounds extremely excellent, and that you will definitely purchase this book right away. Because as the Bard said: “to be or not to be… that is the adventure.” ...You're almost certain that's how it goes. To Be or Not To Be originally launched as a record-breaking Kickstarter project. This new, reader-friendly edition features the same text and illustrations as the original version, redesigned to take up half as many pages and weigh a whole pound less.
Contested Will
Contested Will - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contested Will write by James Shapiro. This book was released on 2011-04-19. Contested Will available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
