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Wood's is an honest, well-organised account that will serve the reader well. * Independent on Sunday * Thanks to the author's gifts of story-teller, populariser and interpreter, Shakespeare's world is brought to life more vividly than in any other biography of him I have read. All the latest professional scholarship on the question on Shakespeare and Catholicism is effectively incorporated in the book, but where Wood has made genuine finds of his own is in the area of the dramatist's day-to-day life. * Sunday Telegraph * In this enthralling book Michael Wood evokes the physical and intellectual environment in which Shakespeare lived and worked with vivid and original immediacy. -- Professor Stanley Wells, Editor of The Oxford Shakespeare Wood is a perceptive, entertaining and enthusiastic companion. * Sunday Times * Shakespeare emerges from the book as the master general he must have been. -- Clive James * Times Literary Supplement * [Michael Wood] succeeds in putting together a complete account of the greatest poet and dramatist in history, one that is both convincing in its narrative and compelling in its detail. * Living History *
