威廉·莎士比亚

Preface

Acknowledgements

Elizabethan England

Stratford

Theatre Comes of Age

London to 1594

The Lord Chamberlains Men

James I and Jacobean England to 1616

The Kings Men

Retirement

Not of an age，but for all time

Chronology

Further Readin

Index

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Almost four hundred years after his death， phenomenal interest inShakespeares life and work persists. The breadth of his intellect， the theatri-cality of his plays， the beauty of his poetry， and the precision of his languageare among the many positive reasons for this. The image of Shakespearedepicted by Martin Droeshout on the title-page of the First Folio of his playsis one of the most distinctive and widely recognised portraits of a literaryfigure anywhere. Yet Shakespeare himself is often held to be an enigma-theusual facets of biographical accounts， such as what he liked to eat， or whetherhe knew Queen Elizabeth I are irretrievably missing.The lack of substantial evidence for some crucial aspects of Shakespeares lifemay serve further to enhance&is mystique. But as Dominic Shellard shows inthis lively and fluent account， by viewmg the playwright in the context ofcontemporary Elizabethan politics and the business of the theatre， we knowmore of his existence than is often generally thought， providing a back-ground against which Shakespearesliterary output can be assessed.