Shakespeare's Face, Stephanie Nolen. Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2002. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 365pp. with black and white and color illustrations, notes, index.S Black boards with bronze spine titles. Volume is in fine condition, jacket has light shelf wear.

A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the same family for 400 years -- adding new drama to the Bard's life. When author Stephanie Nolen reported the discovery of the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted while he was alive, the announcement ignited furious controversy around the world. The portrait has been confirmed by six years of painstaking forensic studies to date from around 1600, and it has not been altered since.

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Stephanie Nolen is a writer for The Globe and Mail , whose recent work includes coverage of Afghanistan and the Middle East. Her book Promised the Moon will be published in October 2002. She lives in Toronto. Jonathan Bate , King Alfred Professor of English Literature and Leverhulme Research Professor at the University of Liverpool; his most recent book is The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage. Tarnya Cooper is an authority in Elizabethan portraiture, and Assistant Curator of Art at University College, London. Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center, and Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University; her most recent book is Academic Instincts . Andrew Gurr , Professor of English at the University of Reading, has been a director of the Globe Theatre project since 1983, and is the editor of several Shakespeare plays; his most recent book is Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres . Alexandra F. Johnston is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and Director of the Records of Early English Drama project (REED). Arleane Ralph is Research Associate at REED; and Abigail Anne Young is also Research Associate at REED. Alexander Leggatt is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, the author of many books and editor, most recently, of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Comedy . Robert Tittler has taught British and European History at Loyola College in Montreal and its successor Concordia University since 1969, taking time out to serve as Visiting Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent book is Townspeople and Nation , English Urban Experiences, 1500-1640 . Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor of Literature at University College, London; an Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute and Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon; and a Trustee of both the Rose and Globe Theatres. He served as General Editor of the multi-volume Oxford Shakespeare, and is most recently co-editor of the Oxford Companion to Shakespeare . From the Hardcover edition.

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On Jun 5 2011, Pastorpest said:

Author Stephanie Nolen engages a number of first rate scholars, especially Shakespeare scholars whose essays provide significant insight of why Shakespeare remains so important to us. Also the evidence for and against the Sanders portrait is presented in a balanced and entertaining way.

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Bookseller: Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5076
Title: Shakespeare's Face
Author: Stephanie Nolen
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 067697483X
ISBN 13: 9780676974836
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Place of Publication: Toronto
This edition first published: July 2, 2002
Bookseller catalogs: MEMOIR AND BIO; POETRY AND DRAMA; ART;

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