William Baker 
William Shakespeare [PDF ebook] 

This volume in the
Writers Lives series offers a reassessment of Shakespeare and his creative output from his earliest work through his  »mature » drama and the late plays, taking into account our current knowledge of Shakespeare »s biography and consensus on key textual, critical and theatrical issues.
William Baker offers a comprehensive but accessible introduction to Shakespeare »s work and places it in the contexts of what is known of his life and activities. Avoiding speculation of a biographical, critical or textual nature, he focuses instead on an account of what is known of Shakespeare and his achievement at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.