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Blanding, Michael.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- North theory.
North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?
McCarthy, Dennis, 1964-
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Blanding, Michael.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- North theory.
North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?
McCarthy, Dennis, 1964-
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North by Shakespeare : a rogue scholar's quest for the truth behind the Bard's work / Michael Blanding.
by
Blanding, Michael.
Hachette Books, 2021.
Call #:
822.33 Ab
Subjects
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- North theory.
North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?
McCarthy
,
Dennis
,
1964-
ISBN:
9780316493246 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 467 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
This blood condemns -- But thinking makes it so -- Remembering this realm -- Undreamed shores -- Princes' favors -- Blood and revenge -- By any other name -- Wonders of the world abroad -- True love never did run smooth -- It was Greek to me -- All that glisters -- Once more unto the breach -- To be, or not to be -- Full of sound and fury -- Our revels new are ended -- Such stuff as dreams are made on.
Summary:
"A work of gripping non-fiction, North by Shakespeare presents the twinning narratives of rogue scholar
Dennis
McCarthy
, called 'the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community,' and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom
McCarthy
believes to be the undiscovered source for Shakespeare's plays. For the last fifteen years,
Dennis
McCarthy
has obsessively pursued the true source of Shakespeare's works, with fascinating results. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and other plays and Thomas North's published and unpublished writings-as well as Shakespearean plotlines seemingly lifted straight from North's colorful life.
McCarthy
's wholly original conclusion is this: Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before -- many of them penned on behalf of North's patron Robert Dudley, in his efforts to woo Queen Elizabeth. That bold theory answers many lingering questions about the Bard with compelling new evidence, including a newly unearthed journal of North's travels through France and Italy, filled with locations and details appearing in Shakespeare's plays. North by Shakespeare alternates between the dramatic life of Thomas North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theatre, and academic outsider
Dennis
McCarthy
's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a highly readable drama, up-ending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his 'singular genius.'"--Publisher.
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