Shakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives

Paul Franssen has taught British at the English Department of Utrecht University since 1979, where he obtained his PhD in 1987. He has published numerous articles on English literature, mainly of the early-modern period, and edits Folio, the journal of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries. He co-edited The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature (Fairleigh Dickinson U. P, 1999), Shakespeare and European Politics (University of Delaware Press, 2008), and Shakespeare and War (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPaul Franssen and Paul EdmondsonChapter 1. Shakespeare’s Afterlives: Raising and Laying the Ghost of AuthorityPaul FranssenBiographyChapter 2. The Debate about Shakespeare’s Character, Morals, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century GermanyWolfgang WeissChapter 3. ‘Talk to Him’: Wilde, His Friends, and Shakespeare's SonnetsReiko OyaChapter 4. Fighting over Shakespeare: Commemorating the 1916 Tercentenary in WartimeClara CalvoChapter 5. The Shakespeare Courtship in the MillenniumKatherine ScheilChapter 6. Biographical Aftershocks: Shakespeare and Marlowe in the Wake of 9/11Robert SawyerFictionChapter 7. Performance and Life Analogies in Shakespeare Novels for Young ReadersMarga MunkeltChapter 8. Shakespeare as Character in Two Works by José Carlos SomozaÁngel-Luis Pujante and Noemí VeraChapter 9. The Bard-Baiting Model in Upstart Crow and Something RottenRichard O’BrienSelect BibliographyIndex

“This is a lively and wide-ranging collection that is sure to please the scholarly as well as the general reader, tempted by contemporary imaginings of a four-hundred-year-old bard.” • Modern Language Review