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Stalking Shakespeare

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Author : Lee Durkee
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-04-18

Stalking Shakespeare written by Lee Durkee and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-18 with History categories.

“A wickedly entertaining” (The New York Times) detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare. Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like. That the Bard of Avon has gotten progressively handsomer in modern depictions seems only to reinforce this point. “Intensely readable…with bust-out laughing moments” (Garden & Gun), Stalking Shakespeare is Durkee’s fascinating memoir about a hobby gone awry, the 400-year-old myriad portraits attached to the famous playwright, and Durkee’s own unrelenting search for a lost picture of the Bard painted from real life. As Durkee becomes better at beguiling curators into testing their paintings with X-ray and infrared technologies, we get a front-row seat to the captivating mysteries—and unsolved murders—surrounding the various portraits rumored to depict Shakespeare. Whisking us backward in time through layers of paint and into the pages of obscure books on the Elizabethans, Durkee travels from Vermont to Tokyo to Mississippi to DC and ultimately to London to confront the stuffy curators forever protecting the Bard’s image. For his part, Durkee is the adversary they didn’t know they had—a self-described dilettante with nothing to lose, the “Dan Brown of Elizabethan portraiture.” A bizarre and surprisingly moving blend of biography, art history, and madness, Stalking Shakespeare is a “gripping, poignant, and enjoyable” (The Washington Post) journey that will forever change the way you look at one of history’s greatest cultural and literary icons.

Stalking Spirits

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Author : Rosamar Amigo McMillan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05

Stalking Spirits written by Rosamar Amigo McMillan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with Art categories.

William Shakespeare is one of the World's greatest writers of all time. Shakespeare penetrated human understanding with such beauty and accuracy that his work is immortal. The stories are entertaining and makes you think....they have been around for centuries that they are almost universally known. Shakespeare's work inspires me.... "Stalking Spirits", A Tree Story is a colorful collection of characters in art form depicted from Shakespeare's Play. It's all about mortals and enchanting creatures dealing with life, adventures, tragedies, and love in many varied forms. These unique artwork will inspire you. When people have Knowledge of Shakespeare's plays...it binds us all together.

How To Read Shakespeare

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Author : James Stalker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918

How To Read Shakespeare written by James Stalker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with categories.

No Hamlets

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Author : Andreas Höfele
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-09

No Hamlets written by Andreas Höfele and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-09 with Literary Criticism categories.

No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and follows the rightist engagement with Shakespeare to the poet Stefan George and his circle, including Ernst Kantorowicz, and the literary efforts of the young Joseph Goebbels during the Weimar Republic, continuing with the Shakespeare debate in the Third Reich and its aftermath in the controversy over 'inner emigration' and concluding with Carl Schmitt's Shakespeare writings of the 1950s. Central to this enquiry is the identification of Germany and, more specifically, German intellectuals with Hamlet. The special relationship of Germany with Shakespeare found highly personal and at the same time highIy political expression in this recurring identification, and in its denial. But Hamlet is not the only Shakespearean character with strong appeal: Carl Schmitt's largely still unpublished diaries of the 1920s reveal an obsessive engagement with Othello which has never before been examined. Interest in German philosophy and political thought has increased in recent Shakespeare studies. No Hamlets brings historical depth to this international discussion. Illuminating the constellations that shaped and were shaped by specific appropriations of Shakespeare, Höfele shows how individual engagements with Shakespeare and a whole strand of Shakespeare reception were embedded in German history from the 1870s to the 1950s and eventually 1989, the year of German reunification.