Shakespeare, In Fact
by Matus, Irvin Leigh; Mann, ThomasFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-11-21
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
Filled with reproductions of Elizabethan engravings, manuscript pages, and other illustrations, this virtuoso exploration of Shakespeare's life was hailed by The Shakespeare Newsletteras "the definitive study of the controversy" surrounding the authorship of the Bard's plays. Publishers Weeklydeclared, "this erudite tome dismantles the arguments claiming that someone other than Shakespeare wrote his plays."
Author Biography
Irvin Leigh Matus (1941–2011) was a visiting scholar at Iona College and lectured at the Library of Congress and George Mason University. In addition to another book on Shakespeare, he wrote about the Bard for Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, the Times Literary Supplement, and other periodicals.
Thomas Mann, author of the Introduction, is a reference librarian at the Library of Congress.
Table of Contents
| Introduction to the Dover Edition | p. 1 |
| Author's Preface | p. 9 |
| In the Court of Public Opinion | p. 13 |
| Is It Important? | |
| Allusion and Illusion | |
| This Book and Its Sources | |
| Shakespeare of Stratford, His Record and Remains | p. 24 |
| Shakespeare-or "Shakspere"? | |
| Hyphenated Shakespeare | |
| Literacy and the Shakespeares | |
| The Stratford Grammar School | |
| Shakespeare: The Heel, and His "AchillesÆ Heel" | |
| Shakespeare's Autograph | |
| The Survival of Manuscripts | |
| On the Paper Trail of the Player and the Playwright | p. 52 |
| The Records of the Player | |
| The Lord Chamberlain's Man | |
| The King's Man | |
| Early Notices of the Playwright | |
| The "Missing" Manuscripts | |
| Author's Rights and "True Originall Copies" | |
| Believe as You List | |
| Afterwords: "Shakespeare ye Player by Garter" | |
| "A Bend between Two Cotizes" | |
| The Publication of Shakespeare's Plays | p. 83 |
| The Worshipful Company of Stationers | |
| The Acting Companies and Publication | |
| Give Them No Quarto | |
| The Publication History of the Chamberlain's Men's Plays | |
| From Sir George Buck to the First Folio | |
| Pembroke and the 1619 Quartos | |
| Heminges and Condell versus the Noble Brethren | |
| The Publication History of the King's Men | |
| Questions about the Writing of the Plays | p. 127 |
| Shakespeare, the Sole Begetter? | |
| The Unkindest Cuts | |
| "Worth the Audience of Kings" | |
| Afterwords: "Hence Broker-Lackey" | |
| The Dating of Shakespeare's Plays | p. 145 |
| The Problem of Cairncross | |
| A Tale of Two-or Three-Lears | |
| The Winter's Tale and Tales of The Tempest | |
| Henry VIII and the Problem of John Fletcher | |
| Questions for a Chronology | |
| Shakespeare's Reputation in the Seventeenth Century | p. 167 |
| The Reputation of the Theater in Shakespeare's Day | |
| The Reputation of Shakespeare in His Own Day | |
| Shakespeare in the Restoration | |
| Shakespeare Reformed | |
| In Praise of Shakespeare | |
| The Bard before Bardolatry | p. 190 |
| The Editions of Rowe and Pope | |
| Theobald versus Pope-and Vice Versa | |
| Johnson, Garrick, and Stratford I: c 1745 | |
| Johnson, Garrick, and Stratford II: 1756 | |
| Johnson, Garrick, and Stratford III: c 1765 | |
| The Scholars' Shakespeare versus the Actors' Shakespeare | |
| Afterwords: A Painting of the Shakespeare Monument before Its Restoration? | |
| The Claim for the Earl of Oxford | p. 219 |
| Of Pen Names and the Cob of Avon | |
| Oxford as a Patron of Players | |
| The Lord Great Chamberlain's Men? | |
| The Case of the Missing 9th Earl | |
| The Other Lord Chamberlain | |
| The Counterfeit Presentment | |
| The Courtier | |
| The Soldier | |
| The Scholar | |
| The Glass of Fashion | |
| A Resident Dramatist in Queen Elizabeth's Court? | |
| The Thousand-Pound Annuity | |
| In Regard to the Case for Oxford | |
| Closing Arguments | p. 264 |
| Stratford in Shakespeare's Day | |
| Shakespeare's Rarified Knowledge | |
| Shakespeare's Classical Knowledge | |
| Getting the Elizabethan Age Right | |
| The Theater and Audiences of Shakespeare's Time | |
| Getting Shakespeare Right | |
| That New Old-Time Orthodoxy | |
| Notes | p. 295 |
| Bibliography | p. 310 |
| Index | p. 321 |
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