1st Edition
Were Early Modern Lives Different? Writing the Self in the Renaissance
1. Introduction: Does Shakespeare’s Life Matter? Andrew Hadfield 2. The Death of the Reader Catherine Belsey 3. Was there a real Shakespeare? René Weis 4. Whose Life is it Anyway? Shakespeare’s Prick Marshall Grossman 5. The Pith and Marrow of our Attribute: Dialogue of Skin and Skull in Hamlet and Holbein’s The Ambassadors Gail Kern Paster 6. Early Modern Autobiography, History and Human Testimony: The Autobiography of Thomas Whythorne Andrew Mousley 7. Early Modern Lives in Facsimile Alan Stewart 8. Afterword Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
Biography
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK, and Visiting Professor at The University of Grenada. He was editor of Renaissance Studies (2007-11) and is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement.






