nothing like the sun a story of shakespeare's love life

nothing like the sun a story of shakespeare

And in the 19th century Walter Savage Landor created an idealised figure in The Citation and Examination of Shakespeare Touching Deer Stealing, while Arthur Quiller Couch’s Shakespeare’s Christmas (1905) presents a messianic hero who has to deal with his Falstaffian father. In the 18th century, David Garrick laid down the foundations for the Shakespeare-worshipping industry, selling pieces of mulberry wood (said to be taken from Shakespeare’s garden) as if they were holy relics. Shakespeare’s mysterious identity enables writers to re-imagine the myth of the iconic poet to suit their own ends, and their own times.Įarly inventors focused on his super-human qualities and divine inspiration.

When I decided to include 'William Shakespeare” in my own novel, I was encouraged by the fact that he is such a shadowy figure. But most of Shakespeare’s supposed “īiography has been assembled by scholars who have mined his work for clues about his life. There is certainly evidence, though some prefer to cast “reasonable doubt” on this, that he was the author of his plays. Records do show that he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and died there 53 years later that he married Anne Hathaway and they had three children.

Nothing like the sun a story of shakespeare's love life