Title: The fictional lives of Shakespeare /
Authors: Gilvary, Kevin,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Shakespeare, William,; Dramatists, English Biography
Contents: Biography: much practice, little theory -- Gaps in our ignorance: the biographical material for William Shakespeare -- Inventing the myths: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Doubting the myths: Malone's unwritten life of Shakespeare -- Filling in the gaps: constructing a life of Shakespeare: 1805-1975 -- Re-imagining the life: Samuel Schoenbaum -- After Schoenbaum -- Inventing a patron: the Earl of Southampton -- Inventing a rival: Ben Jonson.