Description
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.
Chapter
Myth 4 Shakespeare was not interested in having his plays printed
pp.：
28 – 36
Myth 5 Shakespeare never traveled
pp.：
36 – 44
Myth 6 Shakespeare's plays are politically incorrect
pp.：
44 – 50
Myth 7 Shakespeare was a Catholic
pp.：
50 – 57
Myth 8 Shakespeare's plays had no scenery
pp.：
57 – 64
Myth 9 Shakespeare's tragedies are more serious than his comedies
pp.：
64 – 70
Myth 10 Shakespeare hated his wife
pp.：
70 – 76
Myth 11 Shakespeare wrote in the rhythms of everyday speech
pp.：
76 – 82
Myth 12 Hamlet was named after Shakespeare's son
pp.：
82 – 90
Myth 13 The coarse bits of Shakespeare are for the groundlings; the philosophy is for the upper classes
pp.：
90 – 96
Myth 14 Shakespeare was a Stratford playwright
pp.：
96 – 104
Myth 15 Shakespeare was a plagiarist
pp.：
104 – 109
Myth 16 We don't know much about Shakespeare's life
pp.：
109 – 116
Myth 17 Shakespeare wrote alone
pp.：
116 – 123
Myth 18 Shakespeare's sonnets are autobiographical
pp.：
123 – 129
Myth 19 If Shakespeare were writing now, he'd be writing for Hollywood
pp.：
129 – 135
Myth 20 The Tempest was Shakespeare's farewell to the stage
pp.：
135 – 140
Myth 21 Shakespeare had a huge vocabulary
pp.：
140 – 147
Myth 22 Shakespeare's plays are timeless
pp.：
147 – 153
Myth 23 Macbeth is jinxed in the theater
pp.：
153 – 160
Myth 24 Shakespeare did not revise his plays
pp.：
160 – 166
Myth 25 Boy actors played women's roles
pp.：
166 – 173
Myth 26 Shakespeare's plays don't work as movies
pp.：
173 – 179
Myth 27 Yorick's skull was real
pp.：
179 – 185
Myth 28 Queen Elizabeth loved Shakespeare's plays
pp.：
185 – 193
Myth 29 Shakespeare's characters are like real people
pp.：
193 – 200
Myth 30 Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare
pp.：
200 – 206
Further Reading
pp.：
212 – 217
30 Great Myths about Shakespeare
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