Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide - Nick Groom, Piero 2013
Identifying Shakespeare
Born on St George’s Day
Family Ambitions
Debts and Troubles
School Days
Lost Years
Marriage
The Hireling Actor
The Influence of Acting on Writing
The Hireling Playwright
Elizabethan Theatre Work
London Life
Shakespeare’s Facility of Expression
Shakespeare’s English History
Henry VI
The Hireling Poet
The Spelling of “Shak(e)speare”
An Upstart Crow
Kit Marlowe
Hony-tongued
Shaxpier Gains Success
Published Plays
Comparing the Bad Quarto of Hamlet
Hamlet’s Revision
A “Personal” Hamlet?
The Original or “Ur-Hamlet”
The Essex Rebellion
Changing Fortunes
Retirement
Death
Early Myths of Shakespeare’s Life
Shakespeare the Entrepreneur
A Gentrified Shakespeare
The Bard’s Relics
Manuscripts and Shakespeare’s Books
Souvenirs and National Heritage
Natural Genius
Shakespeare’s Sources
“By the dim light of Nature”
A Peculiarly English Freedom
A Gothic and Sublime Genius
The Splendours of Shakespeare
The Rise of Shakespeare’s Popularity
18th-Century Editions
Subsequent Tonson Editions
The Shakespeare Apocrypha
Cardenio, or The Double Falsehood
18th-Century Miscellany
Preposterous Facts and Scholarly Scepticism
Biographical Fact and Fiction
Inventions of Anecdotes
The Sonnets as Autobiography
Shakespeare’s “Confessions”?
Mr W.H
Oscar Wilde’s Solution
The Dark Lady
“Lust in Action” …
Romantic Poets
Romantic Hamlets
Shelley and Byron Discuss Hamlet …
Romantic versus Modernist Hamlets
From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Shakespeare Everywhere
The Biographical Pattern
The Merger of Life and Drama
The Scholarly Project
Rejects from the Canon
Theatrical Traditions
The Curse of Macbeth
A National Theatre
The Modernist Approach
Multi-media Shakespeare
Unearthing the Rose Theatre
Rebuilding the Globe Theatre
Shakespeare in Cinema
The Spectrum of Shakespeare Films
Cinematic and TV Adaptations
Shakespeare on a Global Scale
Bardolatry
The World’s Compulsory Author
The Englishness of Shakespeare?
Is there a German Shakespeare?
And Now a European Shakespeare?
The Criticism of Close Reading
Mouthpiece of the Conservative Establishment
The Political Misuse of Shakespeare
New Historicism
Cultural Materialism
The Late Capitalist Show
Post-Colonial Criticism
Shakespeare’s Views on Race?
Feminist Criticism
Twentieth-Century Feminist Criticism
The Gender Question
Queer Theory
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Authorship Controversy
Shakespeare Gets his Bacon
Other Bacon Partisans
Decoding Shakespeare
Cryptograms, Ciphers and Acrostics
The Oxford Controversy — and Looney Tunes
And So, in Conclusion
The Editing of Shakespeare’s Texts
Chronology of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems
Selected Bibliography