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Title: Mystified by the reviews
Review: Note: date of this review should read "15 December 2012".It has been suggested (I forget who said it) that Chute should have titled the book, "The London of Shakespeare". That sums it up. I've read practically every book-length bio (nearly 50) of William Shaksper of Stratford and Chute's is one of the emptiest biographically speaking, though that means (to here credit) she added less than the usual amount of speculation. Frankly, I find it among the most boring of the genre. As a description of London and the theater at the time it may not be bad, but it is certainly not the best book on that subject either.
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