Title: Fictional Shakespeare
Review: Ackroyd takes a string of "maybe," "possible," "could have," "perhaps," "may have," and other weak conjecture, stirs them up and then makes definitive statements about what Shakespeare was doing, thinking, feeling, etc. Worse, he tells the story poorly. If you want good Shakespeare, you will need a real biography. If you want fiction, go watch Shakespeare in Love. This book delivers neither an informative biography nor a good story.
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