دانلود کتاب 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material—or its absence—can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.Content: Chapter 1 Shakespeare was the Most Popular Writer of his Time (pages 6–10): Chapter 2 Shakespeare was not Well Educated (pages 11–17): Chapter 3 Shakespeare's Plays Should be Performed in Elizabethan Dress (pages 18–25): Chapter 4 Shakespeare was not Interested in Having his Plays Printed (pages 26–33): Chapter 5 Shakespeare Never Traveled (pages 34–39): Chapter 6 Shakespeare's Plays are Politically Incorrect (pages 40–46): Chapter 7 Shakespeare was a Catholic (pages 47–53): Chapter 8 Shakespeare's Plays had no Scenery (pages 54–59): Chapter 9 Shakespeare's Tragedies are More Serious than his Comedies (pages 60–65): Chapter 10 Shakespeare Hated his Wife (pages 66–71): Chapter 11 Shakespeare Wrote in the Rhythms of Everyday Speech (pages 72–79): Chapter 12 Hamlet was Named After Shakespeare's Son (pages 80–85): Chapter 13 The Coarse Bits of Shakespeare are for the Groundlings; the Philosophy is for the Upper Classes (pages 86–93): Chapter 14 Shakespeare was a Stratford Playwright (pages 94–98): Chapter 15 Shakespeare was a Plagiarist (pages 99–105): Chapter 16 We Don't Know Much About Shakespeare's Life (pages 106–112): Chapter 17 Shakespeare Wrote Alone (pages 113–118): Chapter 18 Shakespeare's Sonnets are Autobiographical (pages 119–124): Chapter 19 If Shakespeare Were Writing Now, He'd be Writing for Hollywood (pages 125–129): Chapter 20 The Tempest was Shakespeare's Farewell to the Stage (pages 130–136): Chapter 21 Shakespeare had a Huge Vocabulary (pages 137–142): Chapter 22 Shakespeare's Plays are Timeless (pages 143–149): Chapter 23 Macbeth is Jinxed in the Theater (pages 150–155): Chapter 24 Shakespeare Did Not Revise His Plays (pages 156–162): Chapter 25 Boy Actors Played Women's Roles (pages 163–168): Chapter 26 Shakespeare's Plays Don't Work As Movies (pages 169–174): Chapter 27 Yorick's Skull was Real (pages 175–182): Chapter 28 Queen Elizabeth Loved Shakespeare's Plays (pages 183–189): Chapter 29 Shakespeare's Characters are Like Real People (pages 190–195): Chapter 30 Shakespeare Didn't Write Shakespeare (pages 196–201):