Lena Cowen Orlin is Emeritus Professor of English at Georgetown University, Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Chair of the Board of Governors of the New Variorum Shakespeare Editions. She served as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America for twenty-two years and Executive Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library for fourteen years. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; a general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series, the Arden Shakespeare State of Play series, and the Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture series; and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Shakespeare Studies and Shakespeare Survey. Among her many publications are Locating Privacy in Tudor London and The Bedford Shakespeare.

The great and lasting result of [Orlin's] labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life... it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case... detailed and dazzling... [an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures.

• Introduction: 26 April 1564 1: 23 January 1577: Shakespeare's Father 2: 28 November 1582: Shakespeare's Wedding 3: 4 May 1597: Shakespeare's Home 4: 25 March 1616: Shakespeare's Will 5: 25 April 1616: Shakespeare's Monument List of Abbreviations Appendix I. Shakespeare in the West Midlands Appendix II. The Quiney Papers Appendix III. Shakespeare's Last Will Appendix IV. Shakespeare's Earlier Will Appendix V. The 'Shakespeare Type' of Funerary Monuments Appendix VI. Shakespeare Documented

Lena Cowen Orlin is Emeritus Professor of English at Georgetown University, Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Chair of the Board of Governors of the New Variorum Shakespeare Editions. She served as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America for twenty-two years and Executive Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library for fourteen years. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; a general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series, the Arden Shakespeare State of Play series, and the Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture series; and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Shakespeare Studies and Shakespeare Survey. Among her many publications are Locating Privacy in Tudor London and The Bedford Shakespeare.

The great and lasting result of [Orlin's] labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life... it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case... detailed and dazzling... [an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures.

• Introduction: 26 April 1564 1: 23 January 1577: Shakespeare's Father 2: 28 November 1582: Shakespeare's Wedding 3: 4 May 1597: Shakespeare's Home 4: 25 March 1616: Shakespeare's Will 5: 25 April 1616: Shakespeare's Monument List of Abbreviations Appendix I. Shakespeare in the West Midlands Appendix II. The Quiney Papers Appendix III. Shakespeare's Last Will Appendix IV. Shakespeare's Earlier Will Appendix V. The 'Shakespeare Type' of Funerary Monuments Appendix VI. Shakespeare Documented

Lena Cowen Orlin is Emeritus Professor of English at Georgetown University, Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Chair of the Board of Governors of the New Variorum Shakespeare Editions. She served as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America for twenty-two years and Executive Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library for fourteen years. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; a general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series, the Arden Shakespeare State of Play series, and the Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture series; and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Shakespeare Studies and Shakespeare Survey. Among her many publications are Locating Privacy in Tudor London and The Bedford Shakespeare.

The great and lasting result of [Orlin's] labors is how punishingly she demolishes shoddy claims and biased inferences that have distorted our understanding of Shakespeare's life... it reads like a detective story in which a skilled investigator returns to a cold case... detailed and dazzling... [an] impressive and valuable book, a biography that will lead many to revise their classroom lectures.

• Introduction: 26 April 1564 1: 23 January 1577: Shakespeare's Father 2: 28 November 1582: Shakespeare's Wedding 3: 4 May 1597: Shakespeare's Home 4: 25 March 1616: Shakespeare's Will 5: 25 April 1616: Shakespeare's Monument List of Abbreviations Appendix I. Shakespeare in the West Midlands Appendix II. The Quiney Papers Appendix III. Shakespeare's Last Will Appendix IV. Shakespeare's Earlier Will Appendix V. The 'Shakespeare Type' of Funerary Monuments Appendix VI. Shakespeare Documented