| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 482 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Robert Chester's Mysterious Birds -- A Poetic Requiem -- for Whom? -- The Phoenix and the Turtle -- Threnos -- The Legend of the Wonderful Bird, the Phoenix -- Only Three Copies of the Book Extant, and Each One Different -- Love's Martyr -- The Story of the Life and Death of the Turtle and the Phoenix -- The Turtle's Cantoes and Shakespeare's Sonnets -- Mourned by a Chorus of Poets -- John Marston Sees the Wonder of Perfection -- Ben Jonson Knew Them Well -- Ode Enthusiastic -- Behind the Shroud of Mystery -- Awakening -- First Conjectures and Hypotheses -- "Enjoy the Music of the Verses ..." -- Take Another Look At Those Dates! -- A Strange "Misprint" in the British Library's Copy -- The Most Famous Publisher -- Dead Salusbury Helps to Open the Curtain -- No Other Couple Like Them In All England -- A Platonic Marriage -- Hamlet's Schoolfellow -- A Long-Standing Controversy About Stratford-on-Avon -- "Shakespeare Without End" -- Who Invented "The Shakespeare Authorship Problem" -- And Why? The Traces of Genius -- William Shakspere from Stratford, his Family and Occupation -- The Last Will of the Lord of Language? The Riddle of the Signatures -- A Close Friend of the Earl of Southampton -- A Crow In Someone Else's Feathers -- Cambridge and Oxford knew the Spear shaker -- A Self-Satisfied Pork-Butcher or a Melancholy Tailor? -- A Portrait Ben Jonson Recommended Not Looking At -- The Great Bard Acquires a Biography -- The Anniversary -- Chests of Manuscripts -- The First Doubts; Baconian Heresy -- Formation Of The Scholarly History. Rutland Appears -- Coincidences, Coincidences... -- An Ideological Taboo -- The Discussion Becomes More Involved. New Candidates, New Evolutions of the Elusive Image -- In Academic Circles -- The Facts Keep Piling Up -- The Hour Has Struck For the Turtle and the Phoenix -- The Chaste Lords of Sherwood Forest -- The Trail Leads to Belvoir -- A Child of State -- Oh, Padua, Padua ... The Portrait Decoded -- Phoenix, Daughter of Phoenix: Rosalind -- Jaques-the-Melancholic Craves to Play a Fool -- Cambridge Games on the Muses' Home Turf -- A Favorite on the Scaffold. Downfall -- The Ship is Bound for Elsinore: Two "Hamlet" Quartos -- The Poets of Belvoir Vale -- The Countess of Pembroke -- Mistress of Poetic Arcadia in Foggy Albion -- The Transfiguration of Captain Lanyer's Wife -- Thomas Coryate of Odcombe, the World's Greatest Legstretcher, Alias the Prince of Poets -- All the Poets of England Sing the praises to the Giant of Mind and his Crudities -- Across Europe at a Gallop -- "Cabbage" As a Dessert For The Idiots Readers -- To India, On Foot, with His Majesty's Water Poet Laughing All the Way -- The Rabelaisian Carnival -- Interlude: Excerpts from the book "Coryate's Crudities" -- Some "Panegyric" Introductory Material Honoring the Unordinary Legstretcher and Writer -- Death And Canonization Behind the Curtain -- The Enchanted Island of Master Magician Prospero and His Bequest -- The Faces of the Dead Were Covered and Everybody Was Silent -- Covert Elegies -- And Manners Brightly Shines -- My Tongue-tied Muse in Manners Holds Her Still... -- When Did the Shakespeare Plays About the War of the Roses Appear? -- For Whom the Bell Tolled -- Coming Back To Chester -- The Bell Tolled For Shakespeare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Originally published: Igra ob Uilʹiame Shėkspire, ili, Taĭna Velikogo Feniksa. Moskva : Artist, rezhisser, teatr, 1997 |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship.
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Rutland, Roger Manners, Earl of, 1576-1612 -- Authorship
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| SUBJECT |
Rutland, Roger Manners, Earl of, 1576-1612 fast |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Authorship
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003001921 |
| ISBN |
0875861873 |
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9780875861876 |
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1280655763 |
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9781280655760 |
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9786610655762 |
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6610655766 |
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