- Title
- Nine lives of William Shakespeare
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468650
- Identifier
- vital:77108
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2014.901647
- Description
- Shakespearean biography inhabits a curious zone of the hypothetical perfective: a few solid but scanty facts are teased this way and that at the behest of biographers to produce a convincing fictive life-story of refulgent and satisfying fullness. Yawning lacunae are sutured by means of ‘possibly’, ‘probably’, ‘conceivably’, ‘likely’, ‘reasonably’ and similar pleas for indulgence. It may be a failing in me, but this frank acknowledgment of abject ignorance, followed by bold authorial extrapolation, daintily hedged about by anxious gestures of caution and intellectual responsibility, gives me the willies. In fact, multiple ‘Willies’, Willies beyond all reason. That's one sure readerly consequence of a superfluity of biographical bardolatry, which Holderness's book both diagnoses and adds to. If Anne Barton is correct, at least one formal biography of Shakespeare has appeared each year since 1996.
- Format
- 4 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Theatre Journal
- Relation
- Wright, L. (2014). Nine lives of William Shakespeare. South African Theatre Journal, 27(2), 155–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2014.901647
- Relation
- South African Theatre Journal volume 27 number 2 155 158 2014 2163-7660
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