Description: A short biography of Shakespeare giving an engaging and fresh overview of his life and times
Brief description: Paul Menzer is the Provost at Mary Baldwin University, USA, where he is a Professor of Shakespeare and Performance. He is the editor of Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage (2006) and author of The Hamlets: Cues, Q's, and Remembered Texts (2008), Anecdotal Shakespeare: a New Performance History (2015), Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center (2017), as well as editions of Romeo and Juliet (2017) and Doctor Faustus (2018).
Review Quotes:
"Written with verve, this biography is as breezy as it is illuminating." --Laurie Maguire, Fellow, Magdalen College, and Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford, UK
"As wry and witty as it is thorough and thoughtful, Menzer's eminently readable study is the most fun you will ever have with a biography of Shakespeare." --Andrew Hartley, Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA