Fernando Pessoa's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Heteronyms

In this wide-ranging book, Mariana Gray de Castro argues that William Shakespeare was the single most important literary influence at the heart of Fernando Pessoa's creativity, the invention of the heteronyms. Focusing on Pessoa's views on Shakespeare's genius, his apparent invisibility as an author, his possible madness and his ambiguous sexuality, she draws upon Pessoa's published and unpublished writings on Shakespeare, as well as the marginalia in his Shakespearean books, in order to sh...