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Biography and History in FilmShakespeare in Love and Anonymous: Two Films More or Less About Shakespeare

Biography and History in Film: Shakespeare in Love and Anonymous: Two Films More or Less About... [Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anonymous (2011) make a lively pair for comparison under the topic of film biographies. The first is brilliantly inventive with its fictions that are offered tongue-in-cheek and yet are profoundly insightful as well as comically delightful. Anonymous, though cleverly executed, is a dishonest piece of work that argues the frayed nonsense that Shakespeare was not the author of his plays, along with several equally outrageous bits of fake news. Fictional film biography can be enlightening. It can instead be venomous.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Biography and History in FilmShakespeare in Love and Anonymous: Two Films More or Less About Shakespeare

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Book Series
Editors: Freeman, Thomas S.; Smith, David L.
Bevington, David
Biography and History in Film — Oct 15, 2019
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
ISBN
978-3-319-89407-2
Pages
123 –147
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-89408-9_5
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Abstract

[Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anonymous (2011) make a lively pair for comparison under the topic of film biographies. The first is brilliantly inventive with its fictions that are offered tongue-in-cheek and yet are profoundly insightful as well as comically delightful. Anonymous, though cleverly executed, is a dishonest piece of work that argues the frayed nonsense that Shakespeare was not the author of his plays, along with several equally outrageous bits of fake news. Fictional film biography can be enlightening. It can instead be venomous.]

Published: Oct 15, 2019

Keywords: Tom Stoppard; Earl of Oxford; Viola de lesseps; Romeo and Juliet; Ben Jonson; Christopher Marlowe

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