What’s in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Question Explored over a Two-Hundred-Year Period

ISBN-13: 9781527550742 / Miękka / 2023 / 711 str.

Delyse Ann Huntley;John Lawrence Toma

Opis

This book illustrates the diverse and simultaneous happenings in the varied and complex Europe of the 1500s and 1600s AD, mainly focusing on England and Italy, the two major protagonists of this most fascinating period of history, when military interventions, literature, art and religious philosophies formed the Europe which we have inherited today.The book is enriched with more than 1000 illustrations and a 100-year calendar of historical events, in addition to references to 1,168 important contemporaries who lived in England, Italy and Europe during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.This book also delves in depth into the fascinating mystery of the authorship question in relation to who wrote the Shakespearean works.