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Charles Nicholl: ‘The Shakespeare Circle’, 19 May 2016
The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography
edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells.
Cambridge, 358 pp., £18.99, October 2015,978 1 107 69909 0 Show More
edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells.
Cambridge, 358 pp., £18.99, October 2015,
“... was where his wife, children and extended family lived. In Shakespeare’s Wife (2007), Germaine Greer presented Shakespeare as a bolter who callously abandoned his family for several years, and she offers much the same view, if more mutedly, in her essay on his daughter Judith: ‘At some point in her childhood [he] went away and ended up in London. Somehow ... ”