Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography New Evidence of an Authorship Problem

Subjects:

• Literature » Drama

Reviews:

• [Price] certainly gives the Shakespeare doubters some very good ammunition, and her book will join ranks with John Michell's well-conveived Who Wrote Shakespeare? and Charlton Ogburn's The Mysterious William Shakespeare....Academic libraries should buy this book for the debate it will spark and the in-depth literary detective work it provides.
  —Library Journal
• Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography makes crystal clear why William Shakespere of Stratford was not the author of Shakespeare's plays and poetry....Her marshaling of the facts and tight reasoning are masterful and should convince anyone whose mind is not immovably set.
  —Journal of Scientific Exploration April 2004
• Price's text revisits the terain of the Shakespeare authorship problem and sweeps away the detritus of conjecture. In doing so, she clarifies our understanding of why some of the problems related to Shakespeare are so vexing, contentious, and fascinating.
  —Shakespeare Bulletin Spring 2002
• [Diana Price] is restrained,reasonable, and patient. [S]he has the wit and imagination to not restrict herself to facts that are supported by physical or documentary evidence. ...Price's lucid prose, graced with understatement, is the perfect vehicle for her re-examination of what can honestly be known of William Shakspeare's actual life based on all the available records and sources....A thorough reading of this thoroughly readable book by anyone who is not prejudiced beyond reason on its subject will necessarily lead to the conviction that it is impossible that William Shakspeare of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.
  —The Elizabethan Review Winter 2002
• [T]he best unorthodox biography of Shakespeare in years. Well-researched and challenging....Price is the first to compare Shakespeare to a number of his contemporaries with respect to personal literary evidence. Her conclusion: He is unique in lacking any....[O]ne of the most interesting and informed briefs for her side in a long time.
  —Academia .
• This unique biography, Diana Price has researched every shred of evidence about the Stratford-born Shakespere, analyzing and interpreting literary allusions as well.
  —Northern Ohio Live .

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Biographical Evidence
• What's the Question?
• Shakespeare's Footprints
• The Theatrical Scrapbook
• Inadmissible and Controversial Evidence
• Johannes Factotum
• Shake-speare in Sport
• Monstrous Theft
• The "Poet-Ape"
• Literary Paper Trails
• Misleading and Missing Evidence
• A Monument Without a Tomb
• The First Folio
• Shakespeare's Drinking Buddies
• Conspiracies and Chicanery
• Overwhelming Evidence
• Shakespere's Education
• Country Lad or Courtier
• Autobiographical "Echoes"
• Chronological Disorder
• A Playwright by Any Other Name
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index