‘Avoids conventional veneration and turns the mighty name (and examination subject) into the human being’ – The Observer

F. E. Halliday presents in vivid detail what we know about Shakespeare’s life after three centuries of discovery, and illuminates and animates the story with illustrations of Elizabethan personalities, pages from the early folios, maps, and photographs of Stratford-upon-Avon. Much of the life of our greatest playwright is mysterious, but F. E. Halliday (an authority on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, and especially on Shakespeare) sets out the evidence – reassuring us, incidentally, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really was the author of the plays attributed to him.

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