The Shakespeare miscellany is an illuminating and endlessly absorbing miscellany of observations about the world's greatest writer. David Crystal, author of the acclaimed The Stories of English, and his son, the Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal, bringing together what we mostly don't know -- but should -- about the bard's life and work, plus intriguing insights into the plays and poems themselves, as well as essential information about the man himself and the dynamic Elizabethan theatrical world in which he worked. No writer spurs the imagination to a greater degree of awe than Shakespeare does. He has never in our time been more popular. The prodigiousness of his output is virtually unmatched by any author of the last millennium. The mind boggles to the point of disbelief at the richness of his imagination, and his work has inspired generations of scholars, interpreters, adapters, and conspiracy theorists. Dip through these pages at your leisure and find something to ignite your own imagination. - Jacket flap.