Shakespeare

This absorbing historical detective story of the great Bard draws on an extensive range of sources, in the process transporting readers back to Elizabethan England to reveal a man who was very much a product of his times. The world of Shakespeare - marked by political intrigue, state terror, and religious division - is the very stuff that produces the image of Shakespeare as a thinking artist, as one who held up a mirror to his time in a language that has had a universal impact. Further Reading, Index. Color/b&w illus. 352p.