eBook: The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question

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eBook: Brian Vickers - Counterfeiting Shakespeare - Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye

Brian Vickers 

Counterfeiting Shakespeare 

Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye

 2002 | PDF | 596 pages | 2 mb

Brian Vickers addresses the fundamental issues of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years Shakespeare's authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric "Shall I die?" and A Funerall Elegye. These attributions have been accepted into certain major editions of Shakespeare's works. Through a new examination of the evidence, Professor Vickers shows that neither poem has the stylistic and imaginative qualities we associate with Shakespeare. He identifies the poet and dramatist John Ford as the actual author of the Elegye.

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Biographical Drama: Will Shakespeare, Mini-Series Starring Tim Curry, 1978

Will Shakespeare

Complete Series (1978)

Language: English
AVI | XviD 985kbps | 512 x 384 25fps | MP3 128kbps | 2.34 GB
Genre: TV Show | Drama
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075526/

Although there have been countless adaptations of his plays, dramatizations of the life of William Shakespeare himself have been much rarer - not least because of the lack of concrete information about him. The most ambitious biographical portrait to date is this six-part television series by John Mortimer.

Complete Series: 6 Episodes -VHS Rip

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I've not had a chance to watch this yet, and it has mixed reviews on IMDB, so if anyone here watches it, please post a review in the comments.
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Documentary: PBS Frontline - Much Ado About Something - a brief overview of the Shakespeare authorship debate

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eBook: Profiling Shakespeare By Marjorie Garber

Profiling Shakespeare 

By Marjorie Garber 

The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought by biographers from his time to our own. They also show the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare's admirers and dedicated scholars have pieced together a vision of the playwright, whether as sage, psychologist, lover, theatrical entrepreneur, or moral authority. This collection brings together classic pieces, hard-to-find chapters, and two new essays. Here, Garber has produced a book at once serious and highly readable, ranging broadly across time periods (early modern to postmodern) and touching upon both high and popular culture.



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Introduction To Shakespeare in ARABIC

William Shakespeare

Biography In Arabic

Originally printed in Lebanon. This appears to be a biography and introduction to the works of Shakespeare, aimed at younger readers. It is 56 pages and beautifully and lavishly illustrated.

DJVU format | 56 pages | 1.32 Mb
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Ebook: Christopher Marlowe. Poet & Spy by Park Honan

Christopher Marlowe. Poet & Spy 

by Park Honan
Oxford University Press | 2006 | 438 pages | PDF | 6 Mb

The book features new information on Marlowe's six-and-a-half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his shocking blasphemy and his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his alleged atheism. The book includes new facts about Marlowe's adventures on the continent, where he was caught with a counterfeit coin, a hanging offense, but talked his way out of the noose and was returned to England in irons.
Christopher Marlowe's life was the most spectacular of any English dramatist. One of the great playwrights of his age, second only to Shakespeare, he was also a secret agent as well as the central figure in a murder mystery. Now, Park Honan offers the most thoroughly researched and detailed biography of Marlowe to appear in over fifty years. Honan, the acclaimed biographer of Shakespeare, takes us from Marlowe's childhood in Canterbury to his mysterious death in Deptford, shedding much light on this shadowy individual.

Honan describes his attraction to scientists such as Thomas Harriot and other hard-headed realists bent on innovation and free thought. In addition, there are new details on spies and business agents that Marlowe knew, a more exact account of the circumstances that led to his murder, and a fresh description of his evolving relationship with Shakespeare. The author of Tamberlaine the Great and Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe changed the nature of the English stage. Researched in archives in England, Europe, and the United States, this superb biography paints an unforgettable portrait of one of the most remarkable figures in English literature.

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eBook: Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Wife

Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Wife 

Pages: 416 | PDF | 4.8MB

A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway’s rightful place in history. Little is known about the wife of the world’s most famous playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare’s will has been interpreted as evidence that she was nothing more than an unfortunate mistake from which Shakespeare did well to distance himself. Yet Shakespeare is above all the poet of marriage. Before him, there were few comedies or tragedies about wooing or wedding.

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Film: A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005 - TV)

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

NOTE: This post is updated with a better rip of this film. The previous one had audio problems witch are fixed now.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491232/

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eBook: The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life - Frank Harris

The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life
by Frank Harris

Frank Harris (1855-1931) is known today almost exclusively for his scandalous memoir "My Life and Loves", but aside from that he played a central role in letters around the turn of the century, and was a fine writer whose many other works deserve renewed attention in this new millennium.

First published in 1909, "The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life" is a lively biography of England and arguably the world's greatest playwright and poet by an ardent admirer. Pursuing the thesis that a man so elusive in the few surviving documents is found full blown in very one of his works, Frank Harris, a successful journalist and editor, turns his hand to creating an impressionistic portrait that is at once a highly idiosyncratic exploration of the plays and a telling of the life through them.A product of late-Victorian Bardolatry, Harris' "The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life" was both hailed and criticised in its day, the "New York Times" reviewer declaring that 'This is the book for which we have waited a lifetime', while academic critics attacked it as 'nonsense'. Controversial and self-confident, this biographical study retains its interest as a work of period charm. Bristling with fresh, if not always convincing, arguments, combative in style, and with a full battery of belletristic effects, Harris, as ever, pulls off a tour de force.

PDF file from Project Gutenberg.

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EXTRA: When George Bernard Shaw's play "The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets" was produced, there was quite a contoversy when Harris accused Shaw of plagiarizing his work. The following PDF file is a very interesting 1911 newspaper account, from The New York Times, about their feud:

http://rapidshare.com/files/134413322/Did_Bernard_Shaw_Plagiarize_His_Shakespearean_Play.pdf

Shaw also addresses this controversy in his intoduction to The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets.

eBook: The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare

The Truth Will Out
Unmasking the Real Shakespeare

By Brenda James and William D Rubinstein

1.4MB, .pdf

William Shakespeare is one of the most elusive and mysterious men in history. Virtually everything known about the facts of his life seems to belie the extraordinary genius of “his” plays and poems.

As a result, over the past century and a half, many intelligent and perceptive people have come to the conclusion that Shakespeare was a ‘front man’ or ‘smoke screen’ for the true author of the works.

Based on five years of in-depth research, Brenda James and William D Rubinstein’s book The Truth Will Out unveils the most compelling candidate as the author of the greatest works in English literature.
The discovery came as Brenda James was working on trying to discover the identity of the mysterious Mr W H, mentioned in the Dedication to the Sonnets. What emerged from her work amazed her. The code revealed the phrase “thy poet” and the name of Sir Henry Neville, a now forgotten Elizabethan politician and landowner.
Intrigued but needing more information she started to research Neville. One remarkable discovery led to another, most based on previously unknown primary documentary evidence. Finally she was convinced by the shear weight of evidence. She realised that she had discovered the identity of man who had written the greatest works in English Literature.

To confirm her findings she approached Professor William D Rubinstein, an influential figure in the authorship debate and an Associate of The Shakespeare Authorship Trust. At that time he was an agnostic in the debate, unconvinced by any of the known candidates. He was so totally convinced that he agreed to revise and co-author the book, bringing his substantial expertise to the work.

Together they believe that Brenda James’s truly incredible discovery has, at a stroke, solved comprehensively and categorically all the mysteries and puzzles surrounding the world’s greatest literary genius.

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eBook: The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare

The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare

Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0198117353 | 2001 | PDF | 26.8 MB | 575 pages

From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favorite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare offers the most comprehensive coverage available on all aspects of Shakespeare's life and works.

* Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and boasting contributions from a team of internationally renowned scholars (including such noted Shakespeare authorities as Helen Vendler, Park Honan, and Jonathan Bate), the Companion has more than 3,000 entries that offer succinct, stimulating, and authoritative commentary on Shakespeare's life and times, his plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries.

* All Shakespeare's plays--from As You Like It and All's Well that Ends Well to King Lear and Hamlet--are covered in major articles.

* There are concise descriptions of allusions in Shakespeare (Ajax, Agamemnon), well-known critics (Samuel Johnson, John Dryden), great Shakespearian actors (Richard Burbage, Lawrence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh), characters in the plays (Mercutio, Ophelia), figures of speech (metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron), and much more.

* Longer articles explore topics such as Shakespeare's birthplace, censorship, the Chamberlain's Men, film, and Shakespeare's reception in such countries as China, Italy, and the United States.

* Bringing its readers up to date not only with the latest in Shakespearian scholarship and controversy but with the plays' most recent incarnations on stage, film, and in international popular culture, this is the perfect companion to Shakespeare's works, covering everything from Aaron to Zeffirelli, and from Shakespeare in schools to Shakespeare in Love.

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Audio Book: Shakespeare: The World as a Stage - Bill Bryson

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
by Bill Bryson

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.

Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed.

Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

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