This brilliant book manages to encompass, through Shakespeare and his plays, not only a broad study of theatre at the time, but - through a detailed analysis of the Gunpowder Plot and a well-informed description of the Plague in those years - to entwine a great deal of history as well. Filled with much hitherto little-known or unpublished information, written with exceptional clarity, it reads like a thriller and has great meaning for our time as well.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 79 Winter 2016 ) |
