Title: A slew of theories
Product review: The book is well-written overall. My main disappointment arose when trying to sort out fact from fiction and fiction from conjecture. The author makes a lot of inferences based off of the little information about Shakespeare's life. It seems a lot like PCR (polymerse chain reaction), where a little DNA is taken and amplified so that there is more to work with. This is not a great way to write about a person's life. Unfortunately, it does not end there. He will go on for pages about what may or may not be true. At the end of chapter two, the conclusion was that Shakespeare may have been either Roman Catholic or Protestant. I do not feel that 20+ pages is necessary for a subject with no real known answer. Overall, if one has the time to spend sorting through fact, fiction, and conjecture, there is some good information that can be found.
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