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The book provides a compact guide to the playwright's life and the historical, theatrical, and textual contexts that shaped his work. It surveys drama before his era, the Elizabethan stage and London, and offers a chronology and analysis of nondramatic writings and the sequence of plays. Chapters trace creative development, chief literary sources, and how plays entered print, then group plays into four periods—early experimental pieces, comedies and histories, major tragedies, and later romances—accompanied by critical commentary and notes on common misconceptions about authorship and biography.
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