Shakespeare Son A Novel Author:Edward Fisher Imaginative creation rooted in historical fact provides the basis for this puzzling and fascinating story: the youth of William Shakespeare. — Focusing on the young man's difficult search to find his place in the world, author Fisher illuminates the three years between Shakespeare's fifteenth and eighteenth birthdays. Young William's conflict wi... more »th his fiery, respectable father, his unconventional courtship and marriage to Anne Hathaway, his reactions to the stolid town of Stratford and the England of religious intrigues, nobles, rogues and wandering players, are depicted with a broad humor that evolves into poignant drama.
The ways of the Elizabethan world and the young poet's comic actions and tragic reflections are so interwoven as to complicate and contribute to his grown as artist and man.« less