Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and ElizabethIt is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most-enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any language. Who was the man behind Hamlet? What passion inspired the sonnets, whose words were so powerful that “not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme"? In Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom, critically acclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk pulls off an astounding feat, humanizing the Bard who for centuries has remained beyond our grasp. Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching the authorship question, and if the plays were discovered today, he argues, we would see them for what they are--shocking political works written by a court insider, someone with the monarch's indulgence, shielded from repression in an unstable time of armada and reformation. But the author's identity was quickly swept under the rug after his death. The official history--of an uneducated merchant writing in near obscurity, and of a virginal queen married to her country--dominated for centuries. Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom delves deep into the conflicts and personalities of Elizabethan England, as well as the plays themselves, to tell the true story of the "Soul of the Age." |
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User Review - PensiveCat - LibraryThingDefinitely intriguing. I suppose we'll never know the true identity of the Shakespeare works. Though Beauclerk puts a good case forward: someone with deeper access to the world of the Elizabethan ... Read full review
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User Review - ZephyrsPawn - LibraryThingReads like a Mexican Soap Opera, or a Greek one maybe,, but more insane and weird. Reading it in this spirit, I found it entertaining-ish. The ideas (some of which are interesting) were lost to me ... Read full review
Contents
Blighted Rose 29 | |
Budding Genius 55 | |
Consort of the Goddess 91 | |
Englands Literary Champion 120 | |
Identity Crisis 155 | |
Loves Labours Lost 183 | |
A Life of Exile 237 | |
The Very Pattern of Woe 267 | |
Redeeming the Wasteland 298 | |
Family of the Rose 326 | |
Final Sacrifice 353 | |
Acknowledgments 389 | |
Illustration Credits 411 | |
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Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Charles Beauclerk, Lord No preview available - 2015 |
Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Charles Beauclerk No preview available - 2011 |
Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Charles Beauclerk No preview available - 2010 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth |
| Author | Charles Beauclerk |
| Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2011 |
| ISBN | 0802197140, 9780802197146 |
| Length | 464 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare |
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