- Hardcover: 475 pages
- Publisher: John Murray; 1st edition (22 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719564182
- ISBN-13: 978-0719564185
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #52 in Books > Biography > Novelists, Poets & Playwrights > Shakespeare, William
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Intimacies with Marlowe, entanglements in London with the mysterious dark lady, the probable fathering of an illegitimate son – the mysteries of Shakespeare’s personal life have proven tantalisingly obscure.
In Shakespeare Revealed, acclaimed authority, René Weis, brings the man and his milieu to the fore in a compelling reassessment. Breaking with tradition, he reveals how the works themselves contain a rich seam of clues about Shakespeare’s life, from his heretical dalliances with Catholicism to his grief at the death of his son Hamnet. If there is a code in his writing, Shakespeare always intended it to be broken.
This striking re-reading is consolidated by scrupulous archival research. Through reconstruction of records of the age, René Weis builds a colourful picture of Shakespeare’s daily life: the bustling market town of Stratford, the spellbinding forests of Warwickshire, the pell-mell of London’s theatres. Above all he reanimates Shakespeare’s social scene: Stratford's family affairs and neighbourly disputes and a dangerous London scene, peopled with shady spies, informers and torturers.
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"First rate - full of obscure detail and information; however, it runs up against, for all its persuasiveness, the perennial problem of Shakespeare biographies: namely, the word 'perhaps' - perhaps this happened, perhaps that - actually, for all we do know (he certainly did write the plays) - we don't know! On the biggest issue of his age, were you a Catholic or a Protestant? - the evidence for Shakespeare points both ways. Still, great read."
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