Shakespeare and His World

by F.E. Halliday

F.E. Halliday presents in vivid detail what we know about Shakespeare's life after three centuries of discovery, and illuminates and animates the story with illustrations of Elizabethan personalities, pages from the early folios, maps, and photographs of Stratford-upon-Avon. Much of the great playwright's biography is mysterious, but Halliday (an authority on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, and especially on Shakespeare) documents the Bard's life and work--reassuring us, incidentally, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really was the author of the plays attributed to him.

Genres: History, Biography, Shakespeare

Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

Reviews

[Martin]

I'm on a Shakespeare-reading rampage since publishing my own Shakespeare Haggadah. This book is the most document-rich/heavy of all biographies I've read, and further serves to enrich my knowledge of The Bard. I'm not your Sweet Swan Phone-a-Friend just yet, but I think this well-curated book is essential to set one on that path.

[Stephanie Gordon]

Estuvo bien. Quizá no se sepa, pero me interesaba saber sobre su vida privada.
Si él empezó a publicar después de la muerte de Marlowe, ¿por qué dicen que él le escribía las obras? Quizá nunca lo sabremos.

[Alejandro Salgado B.]

Muy buena síntesis de la vida del gran autor universal. Con bellas ilustraciones y un repaso a su época, su obra y los sitios donde vivió y creó sus obras inmortales.