William Shakespeare was the son of a glove maker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. This book is both Shakespeare’s story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world. Drama had been forgotten since the days of ancient Greece, but reemerged in Elizabethan London with the building of the first modern theater and the works of this great writer.

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