Bevington shakespeare and biography sample

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Shakespeare and Biography. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 192.

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Making biographies of Shakespeare is an industry in itself. New ones have been appearing every year in publishers' listings in recent times. The Bard has something of the myth of the magus about him, something more than natural, it seems, so that authors and readers hope to pluck out his secret, to solve the mystery of how this son of a glover brought up in a country town could become the greatest poet and dramatist in English history and, as many claim, in the world.

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The main facts about his life have been known for a long time, but provide little more than an outline. Biographers are forced to fill in the shape of his life with speculation. Typically their accounts bristle with subjunctives, with "may have been;' "might have;' "could