Book description
This work provide a humorous but informative look at the life, work, and world of Shakespeare. It gives the low down on his life, his major plays, the Tudor theatre scene, and historical background. It focuses on the unusual and bizarre facts surrounding the world of Shakepeare.
– Did you know that Shakespeare couldn’t spell his own surname?
– Or that he pinched his stories from other writers?
– And did you know that his wife, Anne, never saw any of his plays?
Love him or hate him, everyone has heard of the world’s most famous playwright. But did the Elizabethans think he was a genius or simply that he wrote great soap operas? Any book on Shakespeare will give you the boring facts they think you should know, but only this one will tell you what the bard and his mates were really like…