Volume 35, Number 15 · October 13, 1988
The Triumph of Will
By E.A.J. Honigmann
Young Shakespeare
by Russell Fraser
Columbia University Press, 247 pp., $29.00
Biographies of Shakespeare usually dwell on the 'outer life'—legal documents, his friends and professional associates, allusions to him—and say little or nothing about his art. Excellent in their own way, G.E. Bentley's Biographical Handbook (1961) and S. Schoenbaum's A Documentary Life (1975) followed this tradition, which began in the eighteenth century. 'No biography exists,' according to Mr. Fraser, 'that is simultaneously a comprehensive and scrupulous account of the life, and a consideration, worth having, of the art. This is the book I have sought to write.'
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