Stalking Shakespeare
Stalking Shakespeare A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man's relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare.Following his divorce,…
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Stalking Shakespeare
A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man's relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare.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. 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 a hobby gone awry, the 400-year-old myriad portraits attached to the famous playwright, and Durkee's own unrelenting search for a lost picture of the Bard painted from real life. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like.
As Durkee becomes better at beguiling