One of our favorite books about Shakespeare is Marchette Chute’s 1949 classic, Shakespeare of London.
We found it years ago in a lovely second-hand bookshop, and Chute’s balancing of historical context and personal insight was instantly enchanting.
As Chute writes: “This book is an attempt to bring a very great man into the light of common day. It is an attempt to show William Shakespeare as his contemporaries saw him, rather than as the gigantic and legendary figure he has become since. He was once life-size, and this is an attempt at a life-size portrait.”
This a highly readable and hugely informative work — find it here on Amazon.
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