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Paul Edmondson

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Paul Edmondson is Head of Education at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and an Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

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Sonetit (1609) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset8,597 kappaletta
Rikhard II (1597) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset4,135 kappaletta
Erehdysten komedia (1623) — Avustaja, eräät painokset3,327 kappaletta
Alena (2014) — Cover photograph, eräät painokset157 kappaletta
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (2020) — Toimittaja — 61 kappaletta
Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays (2016) — Toimittaja — 14 kappaletta
Shakespeare Survey 70: Volume 70: Creating Shakespeare (2017) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta

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Owning or Not Owning Shakespeare: "Shakespeare - An Introduction (Ideas in Profile)" by Paul Edmondson To be published on September 2015.
 
Disclaimer: I received an advance reader's copy of this book directly from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own, and no monetary compensation was received for this review.
(The book is due to be published on September 2015; review written 31/07/2015)
 
I don’t usually compare books, but in this case I’m going to make an exception. I’ve read this volume back-to-back with Erne’s book, and what a difference it was. This is by no means derogatory to Edmondson’s book. They’re just two simply different takes, aimed at different audiences. I loved them both for different reasons. This one is a very short volume, but it’s my kind of book about Shakespeare: It maps Edmondson’s personal history with Shakespeare. It’s not a “technical” book about Shakespeare, like Erne’s. It’s much more fluid and down-to-earth.
 
“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
 
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearnèd luck
Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long.
Else the Puck a liar call.
So good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.”
 
in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act Five: Scene One, Lines 440-455
 
The rest of this review can be read elsewhere.
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antao | Dec 10, 2016 |
The Sweet Swan of Avon: "Shakespeare Beyond Doubt - Evidence, Argument, Controversy" by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells Published 2013.
 
Disclaimer: I do firmly believe that William Shakespeare wrote the plays and poems attributed to him, and some of them in tandem with his fellow playwrights.
 
The keep an open mind argument really grates on me as it implies something is wrong with those who don't agree. I'm quite capable of analyzing data and discarding faulty propositions. I have done a lot of reading and research on this issue and there is 100% nothing to it. The entire argument is based on either making untrue statements or by revealing incomplete or out of context information and thereby making something sound compelling which is not in reality meaningful. For example, there is no extant written document in his hand other than signatures on several documents. What extant plays, letters, diaries exist for other playwrights of the day? Other than Ben Jonson there is almost nothing. One possible signature in Marlowe's hand (spelled Marley) and one possible scrap of paper with a few lines from a play on it.
 
Read on, if you feel so inclined.
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antao | 1 muu arvostelu | Dec 10, 2016 |
There isn't a lot new here if you've read Schoenbaum's classic Shakespeare's Lives and Shapiro's Contested Will, but for those who haven't it does bring all the key data together.

The most interesting aspects are the investigations into the motivations for anti-Stratfordian attributions of the plays, and in particular the discussions of Delia Bacon's context (by Andrew Murphy) and of the Anonymous steamroller.
 
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jsburbidge | 1 muu arvostelu | Oct 6, 2016 |
Brief polemic against anti-Stratfodian theories.
The case is made better elsewhere and this is too hyperbolic to sway any committed conspiracy theorist but may be a useful book to chuck at people who are new to the question on the back of Roland Emmerich's dreadful* film.

*Not just for its premise, which I reject, but because of the appallingly hamfisted way the premise is advanced, the terrible script, bad acting and factual errors. And for demonizing the Cecils. The Cecils were badass.… (lisätietoja)
 
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keyboardcouch | Mar 28, 2013 |

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