Shakespeare and Biography

Katherine Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and author of several books on Shakespeare, including Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway (Cambridge, 2018).Graham Holderness is the author of numerous books on literary criticism, theory, and scholarship, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama. His most recent works include The Faith of William Shakespeare (Lion Books, 2016), Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Re-writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury, 2014), and the historical fantasy novel Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare, Vampire Hunter (Top Hat Books, 2015).

• IntroductionKatherine Scheil and Graham HoldernessChapter 1. Shakespeare and Marlowe: Re-writing the RelationshipRobert SawyerChapter 2. The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne HathawayKatherine ScheilChapter 3. Religion Revisited: William Shakespeare, Nicholas Owen, and the Culture of DoppelbödigkeitSonja FielitzChapter 4. To Change the Picture of Shakespeare BiographyPark HonanChapter 5. From Biographies to BardcomPeter HollandChapter 6. Shakespeare Biography and Identity PoliticsLois PotterChapter 7. Shakespeare and BiographyRené WeisChapter 8. ShakeshafteRowan WilliamsEpilogueGraham Holderness