A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information

Virtuoso presentation of available evidence of the Bard's life. "Written with wit and panache, this erudite tome dismantles the arguments claiming that someone

Contains the material gathered by the author's investigation into the identity of the real Shakespeare--Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.

Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing th

Originally published as: Shakespeare: his work and his world / illustrated by Robert Ingpen. 2001.