Volume 51, Number 20 · December 16, 2004
Mystery Man
By Peter Holland
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
Norton, 430 pp., $26.95
In April 1873 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine published a short play called Shakespeare's Funeral written by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Hamley, author of a standard study of military strategy, The Operations of War (1864), and a regular contributor to Blackwood's on matters military and imperial. As the play opens on April 25, 1616, the Warwickshire poet Michael Drayton and Young Raleigh, son of Sir Walter Raleigh, arrive in Stratford-upon-Avon only to hear the sad news that they are too late and that Shakespeare has died two days earlier.
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