The complete and unforgettable The Life After trilogy available to purchase together for the first time!Soul TakenAfter-life just got a lot more complicatedMaggie is a Soul Collector. The point of the take is not only to question our view of history and the validity of biography, but to show how people travelled, how cultures crossed, and how art gets made. At this distance, the difference between deduction and speculation is paper thin. Where other writers have looked at the evidence and deduced a story, Bolt has imagined a story, then supported it with the same sparse evidence.
Shakespeare\'s works are unassailable, and will survive any amount of subversion, but by playing with our commonplace history, Rodney Bolt argues that the quasi-religious idol the man has become is perhaps in need of the efforts of a wicked woodworm. It does so in a spirit of fun, and with the intention of a little saucy iconoclasm. It, however, playfully assumes that as its starting point, and swings the old bones around, viewing them from a different angle to build a different brontosaurus. This book is not, of course, an attempt to prove that Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to the continent, and went on to write the work attributed to Shakespeare.
Like statistics, quotations can be turned to very different facts. Poems and plays are plundered for booty, even by those who profess scepticism as to the inferences that can be drawn about the life from the work. All biographies of Shakespeare, from the wayward to the academic, use the same few-score hard facts kneaded together with legend, then leavened by a dash of zeitgeist and a large dollop of author\'s imagination. We work with a handful of facts and a pile of conjecture. EliotMark Twain likened writing the biography of Shakespeare to reconstructing the skeleton of a brontosaurus – using \'nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris\'. What if Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to the Continent and went on to write the works we now attribute to Shakespeare?\'About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.\' T.
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