Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgements\nSetting the Stage\nIntroduction\nChapter 1 Shakespeare’s Afterlives: Raising and Laying the Ghost of Authority\nBiography\nChapter 2 The Debate about Shakespeare’s Character, Morals and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany\nChapter 3 ‘Talk to Him’ Wilde, his Friends and Shakespeare’s Sonnets\nChapter 4 Fighting over Shakespeare Commemorating the 1916 Tercentenary in Wartime\nChapter 5 The Shakespeare Courtship in the Millennium\nChapter 6 Biographical Aftershocks: Shakespeare and Marlowe in the Wake of 9/11\nFiction\nChapter 7 Performance and Life Analogies in Shakespeare Novels for Young Readers\nChapter 8 Shakespeare as Character in Two Works by José Carlos Somoza\nChapter 9 The Bard-Baiting Model in Upstart Crow and Something Rotten\nSelect Bibliography\nIndex