Shakespeare's Lives
- ISBN-10
- 0198186185
- ISBN-13
- 9780198186182
- Category
- Biography as a literary form
- Pages
- 612
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Samuel Schoenbaum
Description
A chronicle of Shakespeare's life and image as it has been interpreted by almost four centuries of biography and criticism
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