Shakespeare : A Life

Author: Park Honan

English

Published on 16 March 2000 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 496 pages, 16 pp black and white plates
215 x 140 x 38mm | 646g

Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to dramatically alter our perceptions of Shakespeare the actor, poet, and playwright. The young poet's relationships, his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters, are seen in a new light, illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions and concerns. Shakespeare: A Life casts new light on the complexity and fascination of Shakespeare's life and his extraordinary development as an artist.