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Title: Very interesting!
Review: We English-speakers are so pelted with the name Shakespeare from earliest recollections, and so over-exposed to scenes and lines from his plays, that many of us (including me, who took a course titled Shakespeare in college) become after a time benumbed and uninterested in anything bearing the too, too familiar appellation. Neverthess, I was curious to see what a non-literary bio of the man might reveal, and was pleased to find much in this book of fresh interest about him and his times. You might be surprised, as I was, for example, to learn how common it was in Elizabethan England for the ordinary man to be involved in lawsuits, or that London sported a two-storey shopping mall. But the choisest plum -- by my peculiar lights -- is a subjunctive-mood classic angrily uttered by the Bard's aged partner at the New Globe Theatre, on the occasion of his being disburdened of the day's ticket receipts by thugs in the employ of creditors: "If my son come, he will thump you hence!"
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