I cannot emphasize enough the work of Clare Asquith, Shadowplay, and the video by Michael Wood, In Search of Shakespeare. The former is the definitive code-breaking hermeneutic for the works of the Bard, sine qua non. The latter is, for the sheer human necessity of seeing the primary history documents, places, and, well, things of Shakespeare's life (the wedding bed of Anne and William, his family's Catholic parish, father John Shakespeare's will, the city map showing where he lived in London with the Charles Mountjoy family on 'Muggle' Street). (Take note Potter fans: Who or What might "Fawkes the Phoenix" be, pray tell? Does Rowling even know?)Essential reading. Essential viewing. Far and away better than the The DaVinci Code tripe and piffle. You couldn't make this stuff up!
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