Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close
scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is
insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life,
that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from
primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain
scholarly or academic respectability until long after Samuel
Schoenbaum published William Shakespeare A Documentary Life in
1975. This study begins with a short survey of the history and
practice of biography and then surveys the very limited
biographical material for Shakespeare. Although Shakespeare
gradually attained the status as a national hero during the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were no serious
attempts to reconstruct his life. Any attempt at an account of his
life or personality amounts, however, merely to "biografiction".
Modern biographers differ sharply on Shakespeare's apparent
relationships with Southampton and with Jonson, which merely
underlines the fact that the documentary record has to be greatly
expanded through contextual description and speculation in order to
appear like a Life of Shakespeare.
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