A remarkable edition, one that makes Shakespeare s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever. James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of
A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599 A feast of literary and historical information.
The Wall Street Journal"
"A remarkable edition, one that makes Shakespeare's extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever."--James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of
A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599 "A feast of literary and historical information."
--The Wall Street Journal
William Shakespeare had a wife, ten years older than he himself (he was eighteen) and pregnant at the time of their marriage. He also, apparently, had a mistress in London. But the much-quoted love sonnets written by Shakespeare were written to a boy who was fifteen when Shakespeare began writing about him and eighteen when the sonnets end. In Shakespeare's plays, too, same-sex attraction shows up more frequently than the general public knows. Cymbeline is one of the best examples.