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""The Dream Factory brilliantly shows how Shakespeare was not merely a man of the theatre but a man of The Theatre, the playhouse where he developed the mastery of his art.""--David Scott Kastan, author of A Will to Believe ""A thrilling account . . . a story I thought I knew but didn't. Swift brightly illuminates that raucous, scrappy, litigious world.""--Greg Doran, The Week ""The Dream Factory is one of the most exciting and original books about Shakespeare that I've read in years. Deeply researched, beautifully written, it brings to life how Shakespeare 'became Shakespeare' and created his early masterpieces at the Theatre in Shoreditch. A thrilling story, well told.""--James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare ""Sometimes mysteries hide in plain sight and it takes an insightful, patient and astute writer to uncover them. Thanks to Daniel Swift's brilliant research we now know that Shakespeare's first playhouse, the Theatre, was just as important to him as The Globe.""--Andrew Hadfield, author of Edmund Spenser

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Daniel Swift teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London. His first book, Bomber County, was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and his essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, New Statesman, and Harper's Magazine.

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