William Shakespeare: His Life and Work

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Little, Brown, 1999 - Dramatists, English - 367 pages
"Who was William Shakespeare? How did the "rude groom" from Stratford, the son of a glover who rose to be Mayor, grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? In the first popular biography of Shakespeare for quarter of a century, Anthony Holden sifts fact from legend." "Was he bisexual? Did he have an illegitimate son? As a member of a noble household, Shakespeare falls in love, endures the pangs of sexual jealousy, and catches the clap. By his retirement, four years before his death from drink at 52, he has become a wealthy landowner fretting about his daughters' future, haunted by the death of his son. Why did he stop writing? Or did he?" "Holden interleaves the poet's own words with the known facts to breathe new life into a story never before told in such absorbing detail."--Jacket

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