TY - BOOK AU - Kermode,Frank TI - The age of Shakespeare SN - 9780753819951 (pbk.) : U1 - 822.3'3 22 PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Phoenix KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Elizabeth, 1558-1603 N1 - Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Shakespeare made his contribution to British and world culture in the midst of Elizabeth's great reign. Here, the circumstances of each play's composition are acutely described, and set within a portrait of Shakespeare's England - its early capitalism, its court, and its bursting population ER -