{"product_id":"fictional-lives-of-shakespeare-1","title":"Fictional Lives of Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life, that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain scholarly or academic respectability until long after Samuel Schoenbaum published \u003ci\u003eWilliam Shakespeare A Documentary Life\u003c\/i\u003e in 1975. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study begins with a short survey of the history and practice of biography and then surveys the very limited biographical material for Shakespeare. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Shakespeare gradually attained the status as a national hero during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were no serious attempts to reconstruct his life. Any attempt at an account of his life or personality amounts, however, merely to \"biografiction\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern biographers differ sharply on Shakespeare’s apparent relationships with Southampton and with Jonson, which merely underlines the fact that the documentary record has to be greatly expanded through contextual description and speculation in order to appear like a Life of Shakespeare. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54242839003480,"sku":"9780367891596","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367891596_59a8bda0-a887-4ec5-bd89-6ceb9cf72840.jpg?v=1769258737","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fictional-lives-of-shakespeare-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}