Filled with reproductions ofElizabethan engravings, manuscriptpages, and other illustrations,this virtuoso explorationof William Shakespeare's lifewas hailed by The ShakespeareNewsletter as "the definitive studyof the controversy" surrounding the authorship of the Bard'splays. "Written with wit and panache," Publishers Weeklydeclared, "this erudite tome dismantles the arguments claimingthat someone other than Shakespeare wrote his plays."Reprint of the Continuum Publishing Company, New York,1999 edition.
