Shakespeare – the bard unmasked
Shakespeare, aged 12, as imagined from the frontispiece of an 1897 book, Shakespeare The Boy
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Book review by Mark Lawson. The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare – Yale University Press
In a remarkable book of Poirot-like detective scholarship, London academic Daniel Swift pursues the unknown but famous dramatist through the records of a long series of court cases – in the litigious Elizabethan age, it was hard not to leave legal fingerprints somewhere – relating to theatres in which Shakespeare had his creative education.
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