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Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography :
New Evidence of an Authorship Problem re-opens
the Authorship Question with an arsenal of new
information and powerful arguments. It is the first major
authorship book in over eighty years without an
ideological bias, the first to introduce new evidence,
and the first to undertake a systematic comparative
analysis with other literary biographies. It is no. 94 in
Greenwood Press's academic series, "Contributions in
Drama and Theatre Studies" and is available on-line at
www.greenwood.com
www.barnesandnoble.com
www.amazon.com
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Among the new evidence and arguments introduced in this book:
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- Comparative analysis of literary
papers trails for Shakespeare and his contemporaries
(chapter 8, appendix)
- Analysis of theatrical documentation
showing that Shakespeare was a theatrical financier and
business agent (pp. 104-109)
- Introduction of Sir William
Dugdale's drawing, ca. 1634, of Shakespeare's funerary
monument (pp. 154-158)
- Comparative analysis and interpretation of Groatsworth
of Wit and Vertue's Commonwealth (pp. 54-56)
- Analysis of Jonson's "De Shakespeare Nostrati"
and the significance of Jonson's classical source (pp.196-209)
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Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography
proposes that William Shakespeare of Stratford was a successful
entrepreneur, financier, play broker, businessman, theater
shareholder, real estate tycoon, commodity trader, money-lender,
and actor, but not a dramatist. It further proposes that the
works of "William Shakespeare" were written by an
aristocrat. This book exposes logical fallacies and
contradictions in the traditional accounts of Shakespeare's
whereabouts; his professional activities; his personality profile;
chronology; autobiographical "echoes" in the plays; the
dramatist's education and cultural sophistication; circumstances
of publication of the plays and poetry; and in particular, the
testimony of playwright Ben Jonson. Citations are drawn almost
entirely from orthodox sources. The book includes 31
illustrations, a bibliography, and an index.
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About the author
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For an interview with the author, visit PBS Frontline's website.
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Diana Price has published a variety of articles on Shakespearean topics, most recently in Skeptic Magazine (vol. 11:3, 2005). Her article, "Reconsidering Shakespeare's
Monument" (The Review of English Studies, May 1997), introduced the
first known image of Shakespeare's funerary monument. She debated Prof.
Donald Foster in The Shakespeare Newsletter (summer 1996,
rebuttal by Foster in fall 1996, response by Price in spring 1997), and her
articles are cited in Counterfeiting Shakespeare by Brian Vickers
(September 2002). Her essay proposing a solution to Philip Henslowe's puzzling annotation "ne"
appears in Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (vol. 42, 2003),
and her article "Evidence for A Literary Biography" was
published in the fall 2004 issue of the University of Tennessee Law Review.
Ms. Price
has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the
University of Tennessee Law School, California State
University (LA), Cleveland State University, the
University of North Carolina (Greensboro), John Carroll
University, Griffith University (Brisbane), the
Cleveland Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar, and is a
frequent guest speaker for libraries and civic
organizations.
For a detailed resumé, click here.
For queries to the author, e-mail:
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