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Daniel Swift is associate professor in English at Northeastern University London. He is the author of The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound, Shakespeare’s Common Prayers and Bomber County. He writes for the New York Times, New Statesman and Spectator.
“The Dream Factory is one of the most exciting and original books about Shakespeare that I’ve read in years. Deeply researched, beautifully written, it brings to life how Shakespeare ‘became Shakespeare’ and created his early masterpieces at the Theatre in Shoreditch. A thrilling story, well told.”—James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare “Sometimes mysteries hide in plain sight and it takes an insightful, patient and astute writer to uncover them. Thanks to Daniel Swift’s brilliant research we now know that Shakespeare’s first playhouse, the Theatre, was just as important to him as The Globe.”—Andrew Hadfield, author of Edmund Spenser “Revelatory. Swift packs his narrative with unforgettable scenes and vivid characters, from the brawling Burbages to feckless investors, greedy landlords and rowdy apprentices. It is raucous and quarrelsome, sometimes hilarious and vitally human. This is history with a beating heart.”—Sir Gregory Doran, former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company “The Dream Factory brilliantly shows how Shakespeare was not merely a man of the theatre but a man of The Theatre, the playhouse where he developed the mastery of his art.”—David Scott Kastan, author of A Will to Believe
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