Reading Shakespeare's mind / / Steve Sohmer.
This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's life, and puts faces to the names of Jaques, Touchstone, Feste, Jessica, the 'Dark Lady�...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2019. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) :; illustrations (black and white), map (black and white); digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Impersonal Shakespeare
- part I: Shakespeare, lovers and friends
- 1. Joining the mice-eyed decipherers
- 2. Marlowe's ghost in As You Like It
- 3. The dark lady of The Merchant of Venice
- part II: Queen Elizabeth's Twelfth Night
- 4. Twelfth Night on Twelfth Night
- 5. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night wordplay
- 6. Shakespeare and Paul in Illyria
- 7. Nashe and Harvey in Illyria
- 8. M.O.A.I. deciphered at last
- 9. Beginning at the beginning
- 10. Tributes private and public
- Epilogue: Personal Shakespeare
- Index.