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 kindĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:29:21 Boxid IA1927524 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Includes bibliographical references and index In this absorbing historical detective story, the acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood takes a fresh approach to Shakespeare's life, brilliantly recreating the turbulent times through which the poet lived: the age of the Reformation, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the colonization of the Americas." "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, playful and cunning, who held up a mirror to his age, but who was also, as his friend Ben Jonson said, 'not of an age, but for all time'."-Publisher description "Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm
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