SHAKESPEARE'S OTHER LIVES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FICTIONAL IN THANE

For generations scholars have labored scrupulously to try to separate the facts of William Shakespeares life from the myths that have entangled them. However, those who have written fictions about the bard have operated under no such constraints. They offer solutions to the identities of W.H. and the Dark Lady, suggest Shakespeares role in the shaping of the King James Bible, and trace his relationships with Sir Thomas Lucy, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I, Kit Marlowe and Ben Jonson. And they speculate endlessly about Shakespeares pets and poaching, his sources and inspiration, his melancholy and death. From Alexandre Duvals Shakespeare (1804) to Anthony Burgesss The Muse, this is an anthology of nineteen fictional depictions of Shakespeare. They include Edward H. Warrens account of Shakespeare playing the stock market on Wall Street (with the Three Weird Sisters making stock predictions near a blast furnace in New Jersey), Leon Rookes vivid memoir of the Bards dog, and the works of such notables as George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling and Edward Bond are included.