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Full of fresh insights and fascinating new discoveries, this book presents us with a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century; a man of the theatre, a thinking artist who held up a mirror to his age but became a poet 'for all time'.
Synopsis
Aims to recreate the turbulent times through which William Shakespeare lived: the age of the Reformation, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the colonization of the Americas. Drawing on a range of sources, this work takes us back into Elizabethan England to reveal a man who is the product of his time.
