SHAKESPEARE S BOOK

A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition Lavishly detailed FINANCIAL TIMES This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable It s a book for our times enduringly fascinating and appealing to both enthusiasts and the general reader Highly recommended ALISON WEIRFINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE SUMMERA BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A BBC RADIO 4 FRONT ROW NON FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023AN AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023The year 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare s Comedies Histories & Tragedies known today simply as the First Folio It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest Twelfth Night Antony and Cleopatra The Winter s Tale and Macbeth but these are just some of the plays that were only preserved thanks to the astounding labour of love that went into creating the first collection Shakespeare s Book The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio charts for the first time the manufacture of the First Folio against a turbulent backdrop of seismic political events and international tensions that intersected with the lives of its creators Shakespeare scholar Dr Chris Laoutaris uncovers the friendships bo