Dimensions
130 x 196 x 28mm
In the first popular biography of Shakespeare for quarter of a century, Anthony Holden sifts fact from legend to create a fresh, vivid portrait of this most famous of writers - he recounts how the teenage Shakespeare was sent to a recusant Catholic household in Lancashire; his shotgun wedding to Anne Hathaway; his time moonlighting as horse-minder and prompter before acting and co-writing plays. Holden describes how Shakespeare fell in love, how he endured the pangs of sexual jealousy, and how he became haunted by the loss of his son.Wearing his considerable learning lightly, Anthony Holden brilliantly interleaves the poet's own words with the known facts to breathe new life into a story never before told in such absorbing detail.
