William Shakespeare

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Great men deserve a new biography for every generation, and this look at Shakespeare's life and character, for the '90s, is conceived in the modern spirit. A theater man, O'Connor sets the greatest English writer in the context of his times. He has tried to answer by pulling together all aspects of Shakespeare's myriad-minded genius the crucial question: how did such an extraordinary being as Shakespeare ever come to exist, and go on changing and developing in such a remarkably productive way?