Bibliograph

Shakespeare, Michael Wood

Type

Label

Shakespeare, Michael Wood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347) and index

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shakespeare

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

53087401

Responsibility statement

Michael Wood

Summary

A profile of Shakespeare and the political, intellectual, and religious world in which he lived draws on recently discovered sources including police torture records to show how the violence and plots of the era inform his work

Table Of Contents

Roots -- A child of state -- Education : school and beyond -- John Shakespeare's secret -- Marriage and children -- The lost years -- London : fame -- The duty of poets -- A hell of time -- Shakespeare in love? -- Shakespeare's dream of England -- Ambition : the Globe -- The theatre of the world -- Gunpowder, treason, and plot -- Lost worlds, new worlds -- Tempests are kind

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