![]() ![]() He even argues that a painting of an unknown young man done in 1588 is, in fact, that of a young Shakespeare firmly established in London. As for the "lost years," Wood suggests that Shakespeare may have been writing for the Queen's Men in the late 1580s. Wood suggests that this "world of conflicting viewpoints" undoubtedly affected the work of Shakespeare. ![]() Although he was born in Stratford, both sides of his family were associated with small villages in the Forest of Arden, and it is Warwickshire that is the "focus of the ideological struggles of the time." His mother and his father were likely "church papists," those who resisted Queen Elizabeth's suppression of Catholicism. ![]() With extensive use of documents from that era and in direct and readable prose, Wood explores the mysteries, myths, and ambiguities that surround the life of Shakespeare. As Wood explains, "an important key to Shakespeare's thought world is the traditional society of Warwickshire and the conflicts engendered in it by the Tudor Reformation." He argues logically that because the Reformation has been reexamined by scholars in the last 30 years, our understanding of the life of Shakespeare needs a similar reexamination. ![]() Michael Wood is an author, broadcaster, and filmmaker with over 80 documentaries to his credit. This book is a companion to the 2003 BBC series In Search of Shakespeare, which later aired on PBS. ![]()
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