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Shakespeare Unbound: Decoding a Hidden Life
Shakespeare Unbound Decoding a Hidden Life Author:Rene Weis ?Weis does forge striking linkages between the work and life . . . Thanks to [his] insights . . . Shakespeare?s serenely beautiful lines do buzz with a new life.??The Washington Post — Intimacies with Southampton and Marlowe, entanglements in London with the elusive dark lady, the probable fathering of an illegitimate son?these are ... more »among the mysteries of Shakespeare?s rich and turbulent life that have proven tantalizingly obscure to scholars. Breaking with tradition, René Weis draws upon a lifetime of research to reveal that it is the plays and poems themselves that contain the richest seam of clues about the details of Shakespeare?s personal and professional life.
Neither musty nor academic, Shakespeare Unbound speaks in today?s idiom without sacrificing the playwright?s rich and mellifluous language. Controversial and always spirited, René Weis?s biography of the world?s greatest writer is authoritative, compelling, and compulsively readable.« less