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Inevitably speculative, these biographies straddle the line between fact and fiction. \u003cem\u003eShakespeare and His Biographical Afterlives\u003c\/em\u003e explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction within Shakespeare's biography, across a range of subjects including feminism, class politics, wartime propaganda, children's fiction, and religion, expanding beyond the Anglophone world to include countries such as Germany and Spain, from the seventeenth century to present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Franssen\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught British at the English Department of Utrecht University since 1979, where he obtained his PhD in 1987. He has published numerous articles on English literature, mainly of the early-modern period, and edits \u003cem\u003eFolio\u003c\/em\u003e, the journal of the Shakespeare Society of the Low Countries. He co-edited \u003cem\u003eThe Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (Fairleigh Dickinson U. 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