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Subtitled, "How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare". The first fully satisfying account of Shakespeare's character, rediscovering the man and his world through his own words.
Synopsis
The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times.