Volume 39, Number 19 · November 19, 1992
Plague on the Globe?
By E.A.J. Honigmann
Shakespeare The Later Years
by Russell Fraser
Columbia University Press, 380 pp., $29.95
Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years
by Leeds Barroll
Cornell University Press, 249 pp., $34.95
Every biographer of a writer has to start with a difficult decision: whether to bring the life and works together or keep them separate. If the writer lived four hundred years ago it may well be that not enough is known about his life, or the precise dates of the works, to make possible a properly integrated study of both. Mr. Fraser boldly attempts such a biography of Shakespeare, while Mr. Barroll points out the many risks involved in dating the plays, and the failures of those who have indulged in this popular pastime.
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