1601 ; and, Is Shakespeare dead?
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Electronic Resources
Title:
1601 ; and, Is Shakespeare dead?
Other title(s):
Is Shakespeare dead?
Author:
ISBN:
9780195114263
9780195101607
9780195090888
9780195113457
9780199733491
Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Physical Description:
xlii, xi, 149, 29 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series title(s):
General Note:
Series editor, Shelley Fisher Fishkin.
Contents:
Editor's note -- Foreword / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Introduction / Erica Jong -- Date, 1601 : conversation, as it was by the social fireside, in the time of the Tudors (1880) -- Is Shakespeare dead? : from my autobiography (1909) -- Afterword / Leslie A. Fiedler -- For further reading / Leslie A. Fiedler -- A note on the text / Robert H. Hirst -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"In 1880, John Hay, the humorist and statesman, had four copies printed, without a name attached (only one copy of this version is known to exist). Amazingly, the first book edition was printed in 1882 at West Point, by a friend of Clemens and Twichell, in an edition of 50 copies on handmade paper soaked in coffee, with special punches for the Old English spelling required ... Further editions were printed during Twain's lifetime, although Twain did not claim the piece until 1906 in a letter."--Humor in America blog, June 20, 2013 <http://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/in-the-archives-mark-twain-date-1601-conversation-as-it-was-by-the-social-fireside-in-the-time-of-the-tudors/>
Date, 1601: A short, ribald parody of Elizabethan England, written as a conversation between Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Bacon, and others.
Is Shakespeare dead?: This short, semi-autobiographical work is a study of Shakespeare's role in English literature which explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, and extensive quotation of contemporary authors on the subject.
Electronic Access:
Links to digitized versions of Date, 1601 from Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/marktwainsdate1600twaiLinks to digitized versions of Is Shakespeare dead? from Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2431