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A Stratford man

The enterprising young Shakespeare
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April 2022, no. 441

The Private Life of William Shakespeare by Lena Cowen Orlin

Oxford University Press, £30 hb, 442 pp

A Stratford man

The enterprising young Shakespeare
by
April 2022, no. 441
A portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by Martin Droeshout in 1623 (Wikimedia Commons)
A portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by Martin Droeshout in 1623 (Wikimedia Commons)

The basic facts of William Shakespeare’s life – his baptism, early marriage, three children, shareholder status in his playing company, acquisition of a coat of arms, purchase of New Place in Stratford, and his death in 1616 – are well known. Is there anything new to say?

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  • Research such as Lena Cowen Orlin’s became irrelevant when Brenda James discovered that Sir Henry Neville was the true author of Shakespeare’s work. See ‘The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare’ by Brenda James and William Rubinstein, 2005, and later published research supporting that discovery.
    Posted by Tony Minchin
    01 March 2022