1931 Shakespeare Versus Shallow

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher's original navy cloth binding, complete with the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.

This volume is a first edition. 

With eight illustrated plates consisting of portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical tables, coats of arms, and a frontispiece depicting the Communion Cup of the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey. Collated, complete.

This volume explores Shakespeare's early life and acquaintances, from reputable scholar of Elizabethan literary puzzles, Leslie Hotson, investigating the possibility that William Shakespeare's life was influenced by his connections to the Shallow family. Hotson posits that Shakespeare could have used Justice Shallow's character, and potentially others from the Shallow family, as inspiration for the characters in his plays.

From the tenacious scholar of Elizabethan literary puzzles, Leslie Hotson, who is notable for his interest in coded information, and for his fastidious archival research on Shakespeare's early years.