Shakespearean Biographies

Shakespearean biography is addictive: bet you can't read just one.

You read a book and you're hooked -- there are so many enigmas surrounding the man and, even if everything were resolved, one would still wonder about the wellspring of such genius. It seems somehow simple to say that such work could have been written by a mere mortal. It is all very well to say -- to paraphrase Jorge Luis Borges -- that Shakespeare was all and none. Some of us, however, feel the need to continue searching for the secret of it all. And that first biography leads to another and another and another.

Sarah's shameful addiction goes back many years and, like every addict, she can't help being a bit of a pusher.  This first book is her all-time favorite bio:

Other References

Of course, Ill Met By Moonlight isn't just about Shakespeare. Sarah did quite a bit of research to make the settings believable, both in Elizabethan England and the fairy world: