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Dust jacket notes: "'A. L. Rowse, our wittiest and most brilliant historian of the Elizabethan Renaissance, has given us our first totally convincing portrait of Shakespeare the Man. What a remarkable coup, to discover the identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and to bring the whole age to life, with Shakespeare at its very center, in a vibrant, life-sized portrait the reader can never forget.' -Irving Stone This discovery not only corroborates and completes the previous findings of the leading historian of the Elizabethan Age, but also solves the greatest mystery in literature. Mr. Rowse has now been able to write the first three-dimensional biography of Shakespeare, revealing him fully in his personal life at the crucial period of the sonnets, and placing him in the proper perspective of the Elizabethan theater."
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"As a historian of Elizabethan culture [Rowse] helpfully interrelates Shakespeare the man and his plays and poems with the personalities, the politics, the outstanding events of the age...[Rowse] is very good reading...his authoritarian tone rather bracing after the timidities of most of us in the establishment, always fearful of declaring ourselves." --The New York Times
"A book [which] ought to delight general readers and scholars alike...[Rowse] brings historical perspective to the usual account of Shakespeare as Stratfor boy and London actor...bold authority becomes daring speculation as the historian sweeps through the sonnets with a new theory." --Library Journal
"[Rowse] describes the rich background of Shakespeare's life and works. He dismisses the notion that little is known about Shakespeare but show him a very 'much a reading man', traveling frequently between London and Stratford. Rowse's Shakespeare is untroubled by the mental strain and dilemmas that vex his dramatic characters. This is no psychological study but a straightforward historical narrative. We should be grateful that he, it seems, has rescued the Dark Lady from her literary limbo." --Christian Science Monitor
"This book is certainly enjoyably good reading." --Economist
"Tone and substance suggest that Dr. Rowse is casting is net to capture a...popular kind of readership...he has the touch...a new and controversial thesis." --Times (of London) Literary Supplement
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- PublisherHarper and Row
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 006013691X
- ISBN 13 9780060136918
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages284
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