William Shakespeare

A Compact Documentary Life

Revised Edition with a new Postscript

S. Schoenbaum

This compact edition of Schoenbaum's critically-acclaimed life of Shakespeare makes the resources of the world's greatest Shakespeare collections more accessible to all readers. It contains the full text--refined and amplified--of the original volume, and fifty documents reproduced in smaller format. Schoenbaum has also incorporated new material into his narrative, including an eyewitness account of a murder that may have occurred in New Place, the great house Shakespeare would eventually buy in 1597.

William Shakespeare

A Compact Documentary Life

Revised Edition with a new Postscript

S. Schoenbaum

Description

Covering 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship, Schoenbaum's now classic William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life received high acclaim from critics and scholars. The New York Review of Books called it "a masterpiece," and the Guardian labeled it "our best life of Shakespeare."
Making the resources of the world's greatest Shakespeare collections more accessible to all readers, this updated "Compact Life" contains a refined and amplified version of the original text and fifty of the original documents reproduced in smaller format. Schoenbaum has incorporated new material into his narrative, including an eyewitness account, in harrowing detail, of a murder believed to have occurred in New Place, the house that Shakespeare bought in Stratford in 1597. He also provides a new postscript which includes newly-compiled information from recent research on Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare

A Compact Documentary Life

Revised Edition with a new Postscript

S. Schoenbaum

Author Information

S. Schoenbaum, Director of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, is the author of Shakespeare's Lives and Shakespeare: The Globe and the World.