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Book SynopsisMichael Wood was born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford, where he did post-graduate research in Anglo-Saxon history. A broadcaster and film-maker, he is the author of several highly praised books on English history, including
In Search of the Dark Ages,
Domesday and recently
In Search of England. He has over eight documentary films to his name, including
Art of the Western World,
Legacy,
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great and the highly acclaimed
Conquistadors. The writer behind three BBC films about Shakespeare's early history plays, he was a contributor to
Shakespearean Perspective (1985). Michael Wood is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Trade ReviewWood'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 *
