Best Known for His Guzzleosity
Helen Hackett: Shakespeare’s Authors, 11 March 2010
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
by James Shapiro.
Faber, 367 pp., £20, April 2010,978 0 571 23576 6 Show More
by James Shapiro.
Faber, 367 pp., £20, April 2010,
“... works as part of that biographical evidence: Constance’s grief over the death of her son Arthur in King John must reflect Shakespeare’s grief at the death of his own son, Hamnet; a reference to cuckoldry in Sonnet 93 indicates that Anne Hathaway was unfaithful; and so on. As Shapiro comments, perhaps Shakespeare was thinking of his own life at ... ”