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Shakespeare's Ghost

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I stopped being a woman a long time ago...

It's 1610 and Jacobean London is full of dangers, from the plague to plots and revolutions.

In Shakespeare's Ghost, Mary Hoffman provides an imaginative answer to one of the great questions about Shakespeare's work: why, from A Midsummer Night's Dream onwards, are his plays increasingly peopled by fairies, witches, ghosts and apparitions?

For William Shakespeare, life has taken an unexpected turn: one that will transform his writing. Haunted by a fami...