Jack Lynch’s argument in “Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright Into the Bard” (Walker, 320 pages, $24.95) is reminiscent of Walter Pater’s idea that the ...
At their best, Shakespearean biographers are like great jazz musicians, able to take a few notes of an old standard and spin them into dizzying riffs of conjecture. At their worst they reshuffle old ...
One of the great pleasures of reading enough of the plays of William Shakespeare is that, after a while, you feel like you know him. British actor Patrick Stewart famously stated, “...he feels like an ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By James Shapiro THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By Lena Cowen Orlin Much of the evidence ...
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