00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612299019 Buklod 20161110195306.0 a r |||| u| ta 161110s2013 xx d r |||| u| 9780748646678 (pbk) (iLib)UPD-00259711692 CAL-11752 Golden Books Php3,075.60 Prof. Anna Melinda T. De Ocampo DECL DLC DCAL rda eng DMLUC PR 2894 E45 2013 Ellis, David 1939- author. The truth about William Shakespeare fact, fiction and modern biographies David Ellis. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2013. x, 198 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information. How can biographies of Shakespeare continue to appear when so little is known about him? And when what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why have the majority of the biographies published in the last decade been written by distinguished Shakespeareans who ought to know better? To solve this puzzle, David Ellis looks at the methods that Shakespeare's biographers have used to hide their lack of knowledge. At the same time, by exploring efforts to write a life of Shakespeare along traditional lines, it asks what kind of animal 'biography' really is and how it should be written. Key Features * An expose of the Shakespeare biography industry showing that books which are marketed as biographies of Shakespeare are nothing of the kind. * From this book, the reader can learn all that is directly known about Shakespeare * Asks the reader to think about how we acquire our knowledge of other people and what we ought therefore to expect of biographies.--Product Description. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Biography as a literary form. Authors, English Biography History and criticism. FO UPD DCAL PR 2894 E45 2013 Book