Frederick Gard Fleay spent nearly ten years on this attempt to tell Shakespeare’s life through his work rather than his petty debts and parish records. He follows Shakespeare as player, poet and playmaker through the London companies and theatres, arguing for the order and dates of the plays and tracing the sources he was reading, from North’s Plutarch to Chaucer.
A bold Victorian reconstruction, often disputed, for serious students of Shakespeare’s theatre. Download the free EPUB.