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120 pp.
| Oxford
| April, 1999
|
TradeISBN 0-19-521442-0$$22.00
(3)
YA
British Library Writers' Lives series.
Shellard organizes what is known about the great playwright's life and places that information in the context of Elizabethan England. The smooth confluence of biographical fact with the political and social climate of Shakespeare's time provides an intelligent, fleshed-out view of one of the world's most celebrated and complex authors. Color photos and facsimiles of folios and illustrations appear throughout. Bib., ind.