Question:
Are there any books about William Shakespeare?
?
2010-10-28 14:38:14 UTC
I don't want to read them or anything, but I am writing a novel about one of Shakespeare's lost plays. It's a fiction, but even though it is a fiction, the play itself is really real. Do you get me?

Anyway, I want to know if there are any books out there which are like that about William Shakespeare.
Six answers:
baldyhugsblues
2010-10-28 14:46:00 UTC
even if there is what is stopping you from writing your own novel,



as along as your work is original you wont have to worry about being sued.
ImaHarper
2010-10-28 22:03:29 UTC
Many with shakespeare & his plays central to the plot.

The Fool's Girl by Celia Rees

Violetta and Feste have come to London to rescue a holy relic taken from a church in Illyria by the evil Malvolio, and once there, they tell the story of their adventures to playwright William Shakespeare, who turns it into a play



Saving Juliet / Suzanne Selfors.

Seventeen-year-old Mimi Wallingford's stage fright and fight with her mother on the closing night of Romeo and Juliet are nothing compared to the troubles she faces when she and her leading man are transported to Shakespeare's Verona, where she decides to give the real Juliet a happy ending



Interred with their bones : a novel / Jennifer Lee Carrell.

Plot twists worthy of The Da Vinci Code dominate this agile first novel from Carrell (The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox), a thriller involving a lost Shakespeare play, The History of Cardenio.



Title The book of air and shadows / Michael Gruber.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays -- Fiction.

Lost literature -- Fiction



The sonnet lover / Carol Goodman.

Rose Asher, Hudson College Renaissance poetry professor, returns to La Civetta, the Italian estate-turned-academic retreat where, as a college student 20 years earlier, she had the romance of her life with married professor Bruno Brunelli. He's still there,, but this time Rose has come as an adviser on a film inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets and the mysterious "Dark Lady" therein. The script, which includes an unattributed Shakespeare-like sonnet (taken from a manuscript found at La Civetta), is by one of Rose's star pupils, Robin Weiss, who soon dies in a possibly suicidal accident. The manuscript has vanished, but the sonnet seems to suggest that Ginevra de Laura, the 16th-century daughter of a master mosaic artist who worked at the estate, may be its author--and Shakespear's Dark Lady.
old lady
2010-10-28 23:42:29 UTC
There are dozens of books about Shakespeare and some deal with lost plays - but that doesn't mean you can't write one that is unique and different. He's a fascinating person and it's always interesting to speculate on what he might have done that no one yet knows about.
?
2010-10-28 21:45:02 UTC
Good grief. So, having read your question a few times I THINK what you are trying to say is:



"I am writing a novel about one of Shakespeare's lost plays and I want to make sure there isn't another book out there with this plot."



Good luck with writing that novel!!!
the origin of june
2010-10-28 21:46:22 UTC
Yeah I don't think there are any books out there about Shakespeare... It's not like he was very popular or anything.
?
2010-10-28 21:40:40 UTC
You're writing a novel, yet you don't know if there are any books about Shakespeare?



Ahuh... good luck with that.


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