Autobiography in Shakespeare's Plays : Lands So by His Father Lost (3 Revised edition)

Shakespeare's authorship of his plays can no laonger be in doubt with this book's clear identification of autobiographical passatges throughout his work from his legal documents in Stratford nd London courts.

Shakespeare refers to theloss of his inheritance, by his father mortgaging it to his uncle, fromealry works such as Taming of th eShrew to the late Lear.

His Coriolanus; his twins in Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night; and the loss of his son from Merchant of Venice to Macbeth.

His daughters, as recipients of this acumulated wealth, are subjects of his concern from Lear to The Tempest.

More important, the knowledge of the law in his personal pursuites is revealed as a source for the legal content in his works, which fond fit audiences among juirists at he Inns of Court law schools and in King James' Court.

Shakespeare pleased the king on these matters enough to have him command his plasy to be repeatd on an occasion. for homself, Shakespeare learned from his own writing how to deal with the language of law theoretically and conceptually with such concepts as equity and mercy in Chancery.

He used his own family life, p[ersonal documents, and legal problems to give impetus to his version of borrowed characters, plots, plays and history.

These personal events, from the placement of the references, give his plays, which sometimes end with a fictionalized, wish-fulfillment, or literary compensation, an autobiographical initial compulsion.