This is the 2006 literary historical analysis of Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt. It was a finalist for the National Book Award, but it lost; Greenblatt later won for his book The Swerve, which I haven’t read. This book takes to the historical evidence of the lived life of Shakespeare, provides historical context, and uses his plays and poems to make reasonable speculations or run over an array of reasonable speculations based on the evidence for what Shakespeare might have been like as a person and what […]