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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Durkee, Lee.     Subjects     Durkee, Lee.     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Portraits.     Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Portraits -- Miscellanea.     Image analysis -- Miscellanea.     Authors, American -- 21st century -- Views.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Durkee, Lee.       by title:      Stalking Shakespeare...       by call number:      822.33023 D96s     Search the Web     Durkee, Lee.     Durkee, Lee.     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Portraits.     Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Portraits -- Miscellanea.     Image analysis -- Miscellanea.     Authors, American -- 21st century -- Views.       MARC Display

Stalking Shakespeare : a memoir of murder, madness, and my search for the poet beneath the paint / Lee Durkee. by Durkee, Lee. Scribner, 2023. Call #: 822.33023 D96s Subjects Durkee, Lee.   Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Portraits.   Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Portraits -- Miscellanea.   Image analysis -- Miscellanea.   Authors, American -- 21st century -- Views. ISBN:  9781982127145 (hc.) Edition:  1st Scribner hardcover ed. Description:  260 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm. Notes:  Lee Durkee is the author of The Last Taxi Driver, named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020, Rides of the Midway, and Stalking Shakespeare. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Sun, Oxford American, Zoetrope: All Story, and Mississippi Noir. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "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. Stalking Shakespeare is Durkee's fascinating memoir about an obsession gone awry, the 400-year-old myriad portraits attached to the famous playwright, and Durkee's own unrelenting search-via X-ray and infrared technologies -- for a lost picture of the Bard painted from real life. As Durkee becomes better at beguiling curators into testing their paintings with spectral technologies, we get a front-row seat to the captivating mysteries plaguing 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 takes us from Vermont to Tokyo to Mississippi to DC and ultimately to London to confront the stuffy curators forever protecting the image of the Bard."--From publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 822.33023 D96s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 822.33023 D96s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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