Shakespeare

Published in 1970, this is a biography of William Shakespeare that follows the documented outline of Stratford, the London theatre, and the last years at New Place, while filling gaps with reasoned conjecture about marriage, patrons, and the writing of the plays. Burgess treats the poems and the public stage as evidence for a working dramatist rather than as relics. He places the man among actors, printers, and court audiences, and he reads the sonnets and the late romances as personal as well as professional work. The book is a life of the playwright, not a play-by-play companion and not a novel.

Bound in grey buckram, blocked with a wrap-around purple design by Joe McLaren and title in orange. Orange slipcase.