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Charles Nicholl: ‘The Shakespeare Circle’, 19 May 2016
The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography
edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells.
Cambridge, 358 pp., £18.99, October 2015,978 1 107 69909 0 Show More
edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells.
Cambridge, 358 pp., £18.99, October 2015,
“... by specific occasion or active collaboration to have known Shakespeare personally, which relegates Christopher Marlowe to a glowering presence on the sidelines, and also excludes that engaging gadfly Thomas Nashe, though both had a decisive stylistic influence on Shakespeare in the 1590s, and both must surely have known him. I would also have liked more about ... ”