Shakespeare The Biography Peter Ackroyd Doubleday, $32.50, 500 pp. In 1998 the American academic Park Honan published Shakespeare: A Life, a modest biography that reminded the literary world that, alongside the mass of peripheral material and speculation thrown up by centuries of scholarship, there has been a steady growth in what is actually known about William Shakespeare. T (...)
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