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This modern-spelling critical edition of a famous and controversial theatrical document from the Elizabethan age shows that Sir Thomas More is the best extant example of the genre of biographical history. Following a radical re-examination of the manuscript, this edition relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form, accounting in the collation and in the rejected or alternative passages at the end of the text for each single word or mark found in the manuscript. Particular attention is devoted to the use of sources not previously identified, most of which are reproduced in the appendices.
The author's intention in writing this story is to take the reader through the life of the Elizabethan writer Anthony Munday, and to show on the balance of probability that "Shakespeare" was one of his pen names. The first chapter explains in some detail why it was not William-Stratford-Shaxper who wrote as London-Shakespeare, and how that miss-allocation came about. The following chapters are then written as a story of the life of Anthony Munday, thus revealing the things that point to him being the author. This book is not an academic tome. It is a story of Munday's life told from birth to after his death and referencing the known facts recorded at that time. Some content is true, some is speculative truth and some is honest fictional interpretation. The author believes it is as near to the truth as he can make it. It is time for Anthony Munday to come out of the shadows.
This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.
In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama, and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only for money, Munday is here restored to his rightful position as an historical figure at the centre of many important political and cultural events in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, Hamilton reinterprets Munday as a writer who began his career writing on beha...
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