Searching for Shakespeare / Tarnya Cooper ; with essays by Marcia Pointon, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells.
Investigates the authenticity of the Chandos portrait and five others as true likenesses of playwright William Shakespeare, and explores Shakespeare's life and world, presenting and describing individual costumes, theater models, manuscripts, and maps from his time as well as portraits of his c...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- 'Sweet master Shakespeare': 1564-1616 / Stanley Wells
- Shakespeare's professional world / James Shapiro
- Silent 'oratory': portrait painting in England around 1600 / Tarnya Cooper
- Catalogue: Shakespeare's face: his known likeness
- Likeness and myth: the search for Shakespeare's portrait
- The early years: Shakespeare's family and his life in Stratford-upon-Avon
- Elizabethan theatre: London playhouses in the 1580s
- The established playwright: patrons and players, wealth and reputation
- At court: the Essex Rebellion and the king's men
- Poets and playwrights: Shakespeare's contemporaries
- Death and legacy: the will and the plays
- National identity and the afterlife of Shakespeare's portraits / Marcia Pointon.