| But he was widely celebrated, of course -- his plays were collected and published in a single folio, for which there was no precedent, with prefaces by those who knew him and his works. (Leonard Digges, who was one of the overseers of his will, also references his "Stratford monument" in the preface.) There really was no biographical genre at the time, however, which is why even Queen Elizabeth, the FOCAL POINT of the ENTIRE KINGDOM (to use your hyperbolic phrasing) does not have a contemporary biography of her life. |
