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Biography and Shakespeare’s Money
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Robert Bearman’s book Shakespeare’s Money (2016) can be considered the
first economic biography of William Shakespeare; but it is also the latest
specimen of an innovative trend in Shakespeare biography which has come
to the fore over the last ten years or so. While the vein of cradle-to-grave
biographies seems to be exhausted, new attention is being devoted to parts
of Shakespeare’s life, with an attitude that has been seen as ‘microhistorical’
or ‘disintegrationist’. The article will discuss this new kind of sensitivity to
biography in general and Shakespeare biography in particular. It starts out
by addressing certain developments in the theory and practice of life writing
during the second half of the twentieth century, which are today becoming
ever more substantial; it then examines the progress of Shakespeare
biographies and, in particular, how the issue of money has been tackled
since Nicolas Rowe first dealt with it.
Title: Biography and Shakespeare’s Money
Description:
Robert Bearman’s book Shakespeare’s Money (2016) can be considered the
first economic biography of William Shakespeare; but it is also the latest
specimen of an innovative trend in Shakespeare biography which has come
to the fore over the last ten years or so.
While the vein of cradle-to-grave
biographies seems to be exhausted, new attention is being devoted to parts
of Shakespeare’s life, with an attitude that has been seen as ‘microhistorical’
or ‘disintegrationist’.
The article will discuss this new kind of sensitivity to
biography in general and Shakespeare biography in particular.
It starts out
by addressing certain developments in the theory and practice of life writing
during the second half of the twentieth century, which are today becoming
ever more substantial; it then examines the progress of Shakespeare
biographies and, in particular, how the issue of money has been tackled
since Nicolas Rowe first dealt with it.
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