Everyone has heard of 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and yet very little is known about the man who wrote the plays which, more than 400 years later, can still move us to tears and leave us helpless with laughter.
Who exactly was William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon, and why do so many people believe that he was not the person that he seemed to be?
This book is an exciting detective story, recreating the dramatic events of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. How was a brilliant and ambitious young man caught up in a violent world of murder, revenge and treason?
