Shakespeare may be the man of the previous millennium, but he is doing pretty well in the current one, too. Always at the heart of literary academia (inspiring around 4,000 books, monographs and other published studies each year), he has of late recaptured the general reader, thanks to an annual procession of well-received biographies from Shakespeare scholars such as Stanley Wells, Frank Kermode and Stephen Greenblatt, and from knowledgeable non-specialists such as Peter Ackroyd.
In consequence, however, many aspects of his life — the provincial childhood, the lost years, the first reference to him in print (as an ‘upstart crow’, by Robert Greene), the fact that he bequeathed only his
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