''[A] page-turning story'' - Lauris Maguire, Times Literary Supplement
''A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.'' - Michael Billington, Country Life
Now available in paperback, Richard''s Schoch''s compelling history of Shakespeare''s birthplace reveals the value we place on the building and on the man himself.
In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the -Birthplace- - remains the chief shrine. It-s not as romantic as Anne Hathaway-s thatched cottage, it-s not where he wrote any of his plays, and there-s nothing inside the house that once belonged to Shakespeare himself. So why, for centuries, have people kept turning up on the doorstep? Richard Schoch answers that question by examining the history of the Birthplace and by exploring how its changing fortunes over four centuries perfectly mirror
