Shakespeare’s many lives
The book jacket for Schoenbaum's book Shakespeare's lives, one of James Shapiro's favourites It’s said we know next to nothing about Shakespeare’s life, yet new biographies are published every year. Is...
View ArticleTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor: Shakespeare’s Lost Years
This week’s Start the Week on BBC Radio 4, broadcast on 4 July, asked how much we need to know about writers’ lives in order to fully appreciate their works. Contributors included a specialist on the...
View ArticleShakespeare’s family and the “lost years”
In the last week or so I’ve been hearing about, and reading about, Shakespeare’s parents, who they were, what they were like, and how his family life might have impacted on his career. In her afterword...
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