An Introduction to the Liberal Arts
The Individual and the Community

 
  
Home
Syllabus
Course Guidelines
Texts
Assignments
Convocations
Exams
Study Skills
Contact Info

 

 

    Bill Bryson's biography of Shakespeare: links
Review of Bryson's Shakespeare: The World as Stage

 

Other recent biographies of Shakespeare:

      Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World  (2005)

      James Shapiro, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (2006)

      Jonathan Bate, Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare (2009)

      Anthony Holden, Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius (2000)

The Chandos portrait (National Portrait Gallery, London)

 

The Droeshout engraving (from the British National Library) and The Chandos portrait (National Portrait Gallery, London)

 

The Janssen bust (Holy Trinity Church, Stratford)

 

Shakespeare's signatures

 

Documents related to Shakespeare in his time including his marriage license, court records, and property documents.

 

The Authorship Question: Others

     "The Ghost of Shakespeare" : Addressed by Harper's Magazine

     Edward de Vere

     Christopher Marlowe

      The Shakespeare Authorship Page

 

Addressing and writing about ambiguity/ uncertainty

 

Chapter Two: The Early Years, 1564 - 1585

    Elizabethan sumptuary laws (laws regulating who could wear what)

 

History and ambiguity

 

Biography

 

Professor Stacy Cordery, Alice

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Upcoming

 

Convocation

Thursday, October 20th

 

Professor Bill Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former Weather Underground member, will speak on the role of the liberal arts.

 

 

 

 

 

"The unexamined life is not worth living" (Socrates).

 
cool