Shakespeare Only
Jeffrey Knapp
Abstract
Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeare's timeless preeminence as an author. On the other side are the theater historians, who view modern claims of Shakespeare's uniqueness as a distortion of his real professional life. This book draws on an array of historical evidence to reconstruct Shakespeare's authorial identity as Shakespeare and his contemporaries actually understood it. It argues that Shakespeare tried to a ... More
Keywords: Shakespeare studies, bardolatrists, popular theatre, theatre historians, popular theater, William Shakespeare
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226445717 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226445731.001.0001 |
