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Publication
New York, Macmillan Co. [1947]
Description
"The story of an extraordinary boy and his rise from a working-class background to become one of the world's greatest Elizabethan scholars"--Jacket.
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LibraryThing member jcolvin
An interesting biography of a childhood in a working-class Cornish village by a writer who became an idiosyncratic historian and writer about Shakespeare. One can engage with the strong opinions he expresses in this book. It's not so easy to do this with their developments, as set out in some of
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his later books, which seem almost to be caricatures of the views voiced here. But this is a good book, said never to have been out of print since first published in 1942. Show Less