Sweet swan of Avon : did a woman write Shakespeare? /
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| Author / Creator: | Williams, Robin, 1953- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley, CA : Wilton Circle Press, c2006. |
| Description: | xxviii, 291 p., [1] plate (fold.) : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5999078 |
Table of Contents:
- Who Wrote Shakespeare?
- Prologue
- The Impact of Shakespeare
- What Did the Playwright Value?
- What Did the Playwright Favor?
- What Did the Playwright Read?
- "Not of an age, but for all time"
- So Who Was This Person?
- Part 1. The Question
- 1. The Man Named William Shakespeare
- What We Don't Know
- Who Met William Shakespeare?
- If He Were a Rich Man
- Literary References to Shakespeare
- Missing: William Shakespeare
- Proof by Patron
- Traditions vs. Truth
- The Shakespeare Biography Industry
- Oops-He Died
- The Sum of the Whole is Greater than the Parts
- But Wait
- Part 2. The Woman
- 2. Mary Sidney as a Young Woman
- "One daughter of very good hope"
- Mary and Philip Sidney
- A Life of Literary Pursuits
- The Wilton Circle
- Give Sorrow Words
- Forward-in All Directions
- 3. Mary Sidney's Life of Literature
- Examples of Her Work
- Other Written Work
- Newly Discovered
- Conventional Yet Covert
- And Where Was William Shakespeare?
- 4. Mary Sidney as an Older Woman
- A Change for the Worse
- Still Within the Margins
- Part 3. The Sonnets
- 5. Introduction to the Sonnets
- Was Shakespeare Gay?
- Babies and Lovers
- 6. The Love Sonnets
- "The course of true love"
- 7. The Procreation Sonnets
- "Death shall not brag"
- Philip's Influence
- 8. Sonnet Miscellany
- The Publication Issues
- A Puzzling Epigram
- A Sonnet Collection?
- Part 4. The Sources
- 9. The Sources of the Plays
- Just the Beginning
- 10. The Sources and How They Were Changed
- A Pattern?
- 11. The Plays and Mary's Life
- Titus Andronicus
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Love's Labor's Lost
- The Tragic Plays
- The English History Plays
- Part 5. The Women
- 12. Do You Not Know I Am a Woman?
- Froward Females
- Female Relationships
- Questionable Men
- Male Relationships
- 13. The Imagery in the Plays
- Part 6. The Antagonist
- 14. The Incomparable Brethren at Court
- Getting Ahead at Court
- Don't Get on the Wrong Side
- William Herbert's Troubles
- William's Struggle for Rewards
- Maintaining the Reputation
- Lord Chamberlain Above All
- Philip Herbert at Court
- Philip's Reward
- A Bawd, a Whore, and a Matron
- On to the Plays
- Part 7. The Publication
- 15. The Publication of the Plays
- The Anonymous Author
- Pirates Ahead
- And Who Wrote These?
- "Never blotted out a line"
- Documented Data
- 16. The Publication of the First Folio
- The Missing Manuscripts
- Publishing Literary Works
- Printing the First Folio
- Ben Jonson's Poem to "the AUTHOR"
- The Possibility
- 17. The Sweet Swan of Avon
- Part 8. The Possibility
- 18. Mary Sidney, alias Shakespeare
- Consider the Question
- Part 9. The Appendices
- A. Old School
- B. The Other Candidates
- C. Jonson's Eulogy
- D. The Narrative Poems
- E. Literary Allusions
- F. The History Plays
- G. English Peerage
- H. Real Money
- Endnotes
- Index
