Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth

It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most enduring works of literature in the English language. Who was the man behind Hamlet, Romeo, and Falstaff? What passion inspired words so potent that "not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme?"

In Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom, critically acclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk humanizes the bard who for centuries has remained beyond our grasp. If the plays and poems of Shakespeare we...