Shakespeare's Face
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1877008346 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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She recently reported from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and currently covers the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Stephanie Nolen is the Johannesburg bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. She is the author of Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race.
Five Stars impeccable. Fascinating Minkosaurus This book is fast-paced and reads like a detective novel, and is very entertainting, yet at the same time is educational. I have learned many interesting facts about life in the Elizabethan times, the strange history of Shakespeare's portraiture and about Shakespeare himself - in particular, how little is known about him. However, enough is known to tear down the whole Oxfordian authorship hysteria. One of the contributors offers a fascinating essay that destroys the Oxfordian myth with clear, indisputable facts. The same is true of the portrait - after reading this book, no one with a sound mind wil. A Customer said Caveat emptor. Five of the distinguished contributors to this book conclude that the painting in question is not likely to be "Shakespeare's Face." But of course, a book called "John Fletcher's Face?" won't sell, so the title has not been altered to reflect the book's contents. But if the book's premise seems doubtful even to the major contributors, it is also is an impressive testament to the intersection of professorial pride (sometimes downright arrogance), nationalist striving (A "Canadian Shakespeare!"), and mercantile ambition which makes its subject such a hot topic. I just returned from the Trinity College
Although Sullivan could never confirm the portrait's provenance, this book's alternating chapters ballast Nolen's account of his quixotic quest with eight essays by such scholarly heavy hitters as Stanley Wells (on the Bard's fame), Jonathan Bate (on the "anti-Stratford" author conspiracies) and Marjorie Garber (on how we read significance into Shakespearean iconography). Encompassing the very debate that its story sparked, Shakespeare's Facecombines potentially dry art history with agreeable historical and journalistic investigation. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Almost a century ago, the "Sanders portrait" was brought to the attention of a prominent Shakespeare scholar and was officially—and incorrectly—dismissed as an altered portrait with a comparatively recent label affixed to it. Sullivan enlisted chemical and radiological expe
A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the same family for 400 years -- adding new drama to the Bard's life.When author Stephanie Nolen reported the discovery of the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted while he was alive, the announcement ignited furious controversy around the world.Now, in this provocative biography of the portrait, she tells the riveting story of how a rare image of the young Bard at thirty-nine came to reside in the suburban home of a retired engineer, whose grandmother kept the family treasure under her bed, and how he embarked on authenticating it. The ultimate Antiques Roadshow dream, the portrait has been confirmed by six years of painstaking forensic studies to date from around 1600, and it has not been altered since.