My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, Coral is far more red than her lips'
red, If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun, If hairs be wires, black w
ires grow on her head ...Through the distorted vision of a university lecturer,
the truth about William Shakespeare's love life emerges: his affairs with a blac
k woman and a golden man, his conflicted relationship with his wife, his affecti
on for a young boy. Beginning with a childhood obsession with words and a dream
of being more than a glover's son, the life and romance of the great Bard is unf
olded. The famed author of A Clockwork Orange takes us through the dramas of pla
y-making in plague-ridden London.
Rich in language and soaked in the Elizabet
han spirit, this story of the immortal Shakespeare has emerged as a modern class
ic.
