The Book of Shakespearean Useless Information

This book commemorates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death on 23 April 1616.

Everyone knows that the only book we buy more often than a work of Shakespeare is the Bible. But that's just about all that most of us really know about the great man... whether we know it or not!

Have you ever wondered...why at the last minute Shakespeare scratched out his son-in-law's name from his willMore Description

This book commemorates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death on 23 April 1616.

Everyone knows that the only book we buy more often than a work of Shakespeare is the Bible. But that's just about all that most of us really know about the great man... whether we know it or not!

Have you ever wondered...why at the last minute Shakespeare scratched out his son-in-law's name from his will . . . and left his second-best bed to his widow...or why Shakespeare himself had to play Lady Macbeth on its first performance?

In this excellent, engrossing and ever so slightly eccentric compendium, Bruce Montague (himself a distinguished Shakespearean actor of many years standing) sheds a light on the weird and wonderful life of the greatest playwright ever to have possibly not written all his own plays.