William Shakespeare: A Brief Life

Paul Menzer is Dean of Visual and Performing Arts at Mary Baldwin University, where he is a professor and the director of the Shakespeare and Performance graduate program. 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).

Series Preface

Preface: The Complete Life of William Shakespeare

Chapter 1. Shakespeare’s Dead
Chapter 2. Earth Unto Earth
Chapter 3. Shakespeare at School
Chapter 4. Anne Hathaway, aka
Chapter 5. The Lost Years
Chapter 6. Stratford in the Rear View
Chapter 7. Enter London
Chapter 8. Shakespeare, playwright
Chapter 9. Shakespeare, poet
Chapter 10. Shakespeare’s Company
Chapter 11. William Shakespeare, gent.
Chapter 12. Shakespeare at Court
Chapter 13. Shakespeare’s Globe?
Chapter 14. Shakespeare’s Properties
Chapter 15. The King’s Man
Chapter 16. The Plague Years
Chapter 17. Shakespeare’s Daughters
Chapter 18. The Returning Point
Chapter 19. Shakespeare’s Head
Epilogue: Yellow Leaves

Notes
Index