What's in a name?: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare

This book offers a vivid journey through Shakespeare’s England and provides a compelling contribution to the authorship question. It asks how we know Shakespeare was truly Shakespeare, and whether the glover’s son who left school at fifteen could have written Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. Historian Susan Amussen answers with an emphatic yes, transporting readers to early modern England to trace Shakespeare’s path from Stratford to the London stage. This was a society undergoing rapid ...