| Description |
xvi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Autobiography?What Is It? -- Issues and Debates -- 2 Lyric Autobiography: Intentional or Conventional Fallacy? -- The Poetry of John Skelton (1460?1529) and Thomas Wyatt (1503?42) -- 3 Identity in Autobiography and Protestant Identification with Saints -- John Bale and St. Paul in The Vocacyon of John Bale (1553) -- 4 Autobiography: History or Fiction? -- William Baldwin Writing History ?under the Shadow of Dream and Vision? in A Mirror for Magistrates (1559) -- 5 Sharing Secrets ?Entombed in Your Heart? -- Thomas Whythorne?s ?Good Friend? and the Story of His Life (ca. 1569?76) -- 6 Adding an ?Author?s Life? -- Thomas Tusser?s Revisions of A Hundreth Good Points of Husbandry (1557?73) -- 7 A Garden of One?s Own -- Isabella Whitney?s Revision of Hugh Plat?s Floures of Philosophie in Her Sweet Nosegay (1573) -- 8 Erasing an Author?s Life -- George Gascoigne?s Revision of One Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) in His Poesies (1575) -- 9 Autobiography in the Third Person -- Robert Greene?s Fiction and His Autobiography by Henry Chettle (1590?92) -- 10 Autobiographers: Who Were They? Why Did They Write? -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index |
| Analysis |
Acting History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-314) and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Actors.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts.
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Actors in literature.
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Actors -- In literature.
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Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Acting in literature.
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Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
93017317 |
| ISBN |
0226761797 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226761800 (paper) |
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