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Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography - New Evidence of an Authorship Problem by Diana Price
Description
Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography proposes that William Shakespeare of Stratford was a successful entrepreneur, financier, play broker, businessman, theater shareholder, real estate tycoon, commodity trader, money-lender, and actor, but not a dramatist. It further proposes that the works of "William Shakespeare" were written by an aristocrat. This book exposes logical fallacies and contradictions in the traditional accounts of Shakespeare's whereabouts; his professional activities; his personality profile; chronology; autobiographical "echoes" in the plays; the dramatist's education and cultural sophistication; circumstances of publication of the plays and poetry; and in particular, the testimony of playwright Ben Jonson. Citations are drawn almost entirely from orthodox sources. The book includes 31 illustrations, a bibliography, and an index.
Diana Price has published a variety of articles on Shakespearean topics, most recently in Skeptic Magazine (vol. 11:3, 2005). Her article, "Reconsidering Shakespeare's Monument" (The Review of English Studies, May 1997), introduced the first known image of Shakespeare's funerary monument. She debated Prof. Donald Foster in The Shakespeare Newsletter (summer 1996, rebuttal by Foster in fall 1996, response by Price in spring 1997), and her articles are cited in Counterfeiting Shakespeare by Brian Vickers (September 2002). Her essay proposing a solution to Philip Henslowe's puzzling annotation "ne" appears in Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (vol. 42, 2003), and her article "Evidence for A Literary Biography" is forthcoming in the fall 2004 issue of the University of Tennessee Law Review.
Ms. Price has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Tennessee Law School, California State University (LA), Cleveland State University, the University of North Carolina (Greensboro), John Carroll University, Griffith University (Brisbane), the Cleveland Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar, and is a frequent guest speaker for libraries and civic organizations.
In addition to the established plays, there are a number of other plays which may or may not have been written by Shakespeare. The fact that these apocryphycal Shakespeare plays resemble the canon of Shakespeare plays in vocabulary and style suggests that perhaps this author's theory may be correct.
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