This voluminous and highly readable biography, conveniently split up into short chapters, contains a mass of information resulting from wide-ranging research and enlightened supposition. Shakespeare, boy and family man in Stratford, playwright and actor in London is brilliantly pictured. So are the environments. Excellent on the theatre and the companies of players and how they acted. Interesting on Queen Elizabeth, religious persecution and social life. Above all the author brings Shakespeare to life.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 33 February 2006 ) |
