Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-289) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Lives and legends in the eighteenth century -- Facts and fictions in nineteenth-century Britain -- Shakespeare and Elizabeth arrive in America -- Criticism and interpretation: Elizabeth as the key to Shakespeare -- New intimacies: Elizabeth in the Shakespeare authorship controversy -- Twentieth-century fictions: Shakespeare and Elizabeth meet modernism and postmodernism -- Epilogue: Shakespeare and Elizabeth in the twenty-first century.
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