Searching for Shakespeare

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Cooper, Tarnya. Searching for Shakespeare / Tarnya Cooper ; with essays by Marcia Pointon, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells.. - - New Haven, CT : : Yale University Press,, c2006.
239 p. : : ill. (some col.) ; Accompanies the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, March 2-May 29, 2006, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, June 24-September 27, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index. Content notes : 'Sweet master Shakespeare': 1564-1616 / Stanley Wells -- Shakespeare's professional world / James Shapiro -- Silent 'oratory': portrait painting in England around 1600 / Tarnya Cooper -- Catalogue: Shakespeare's face: his known likeness -- Likeness and myth: the search for Shakespeare's portrait -- The early years: Shakespeare's family and his life in Stratford-upon-Avon -- Elizabethan theatre: London playhouses in the 1580s -- The established playwright: patrons and players, wealth and reputation -- At court: the Essex Rebellion and the king's men -- Poets and playwrights: Shakespeare's contemporaries -- Death and legacy: the will and the plays -- National identity and the afterlife of Shakespeare's portraits / Marcia Pointon. 030011611X 9780300116113 * Shakespeare, William,, 1564-1616 - Exhibitions. Shakespeare, William,, 1564-1616 - Expositions. * * Portrait painting, English - 16th century. * Portrait painting, English - 17th century.