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Durkee, Lee, author.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Portraits.
Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Portraits.
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Stalking Shakespeare...
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Stalking Shakespeare : a memoir of madness, murder, and my search for the poet beneath the paint / Lee Durkee.
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Durkee, Lee, author.
New York, NY : Scribner, 2023.
Subjects
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Portraits.
Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Portraits.
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9781982127145 (hardcover) :
1982127147 (hardcover)
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260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
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"Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like. That the Bard of Avon has gotten progressively handsomer in modern depictions seems only to reinforce this point. Stalking Shakespeare is Durkee's fascinating memoir about an obsession gone awry, the 400-year-old myriad portraits attached to the famous playwright, and Durkee's own unrelenting search-via X-ray and infrared technologies-for a lost picture of the Bard painted from real life. As Durkee becomes better at beguiling curators into testing their paintings with spectral technologies, we get a front-row seat to the captivating mysteries plaguing the various portraits rumored to depict Shakespeare. Whisking us backward in time through layers of paint and into the pages of obscure books on the Elizabethans, Durkee takes us from Vermont to Tokyo to Mississippi to DC and ultimately to London to confront the stuffy curators forever protecting the image of the Bard. For his part, Durkee is the adversary they didn't know they had-a writer from Mississippi with nothing to lose-the "Dan Brown of English portraiture." A lively, bizarre, and surprisingly moving blend of biography, art history, and madness, Stalking Shakespeare is as entertaining as it is rigorous and sheds new light on one of history's greatest cultural and literary icons"--Provided by publisher.
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