Shakespeare Unbound: Decoding a Hidden Life

by René Weis

Book Overview

At last--a key that unlocks the secrets of Shakespeare's life ? Intimacies with Southampton and Marlowe, entanglements in London with the elusive dark lady, the probable fathering of an illegitimate son--these are among the mysteries of Shakespeare's rich and turbulent life that have proven tantalizingly obscure. Despite an avalanche of recent scholarship, Ren? Weis, an acknowledged authority on the Elizabethan period, believes the links between the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805075011
• ISBN13: 9780805075014
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The best biography of Will to date!

René Weis breaks down all kinds of artifical and traditional walls between Shakespeare's life and works to discover new evidence and reevaluate old evidence. Weis traces Will's links to hundreds of other people of his time including the most likely youth of the Sonnets (Henry Wriothesley), the dark lady (Aemelia Bassano Lanier), and rival poet (Kit Marlowe). I envy his access to and smart use of documents in Stratford and London. You may want to argue with some of his answers, but his brave confrontation with all the old questions about Shakespeare's life, writing style, and autobiographical clues will amaze and delight you. A new level of biography writer for Shakespeare lovers! --Peter Jensen, author of Secrets of the Sonnets: Shakespeare's Code