Explores the life of playwright and poet William Shakespeare, discussing the social and political world in which he lived, his childhood, his loves, his "lost years," his career, and his plays.
Provides reference information on the life and work of William Shakespeare, featuring a brief biography of the playwright, and including commentaries on each of his known works, arranged alphabetically from A to S.
Profiles the life and career of Ben Jonson who is regarded as the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries and who is the author of may stage plays, was a principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, and among the first Poet Laureate's in England.