Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths Book

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on the Text xiii Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Lives and Legends in the Eighteenth Century 21
Chapter 2: Facts and Fictions in Nineteenth-Century Britain 46
Chapter 3: Shakespeare and Elizabeth Arrive in America 95
Chapter 4: Criticism and Interpretation: Elizabeth as the Key to Shakespeare 112
Chapter 5: New Intimacies: Elizabeth in the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy 152
Chapter 6: Twentieth-Century Fictions: Shakespeare and Elizabeth Meet Modernism and Postmodernism 179
Epilogue: Shakespeare and Elizabeth in the Twenty-fi rst Century 227
Notes 245
Bibliography 269
Index 291