Were Early Modern Lives Different? : Writing the Self in the Renaissance (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Does Shakespeare’s Life Matter? Andrew Hadfield  2. The Death of the Reader Catherine Belsey  3. Was there a real Shakespeare? Rene Weis  4. Whose Life is it Anyway? Shakespeare’s Prick Marshall Grossman  5. The Pith and Marrow of our Attribute: Dialogue of Skin and Skull in Hamlet and Holbein’s The Ambassadors Gail Kern Paster  6. Early Modern Autobiography, History and Human Testimony: The Autobiography of Thomas Whythorne Andrew Mousley  7. Early Modern Lives in Facsimile Alan Stewart  8. Afterword Elizabeth Jane Bellamy