Shakespeare - The Awakening Years

The idea for this book came from reading E.A.J. Honigmann's book 'Shakespeare, The Lost Years' in which he makes a strong case for Shakespeare spending time in Lancashire as a teacher. It was a short step from reading this book, and many more, to imagining his life as a boy: through his teenage years, thinking about girls and wondering about his future. The healthy interest in sex he shows in his plays as an adult would no doubt have been stimulated by his encounters in his teenage years. This story ends with his marriage to Anne Hathaway and his eventual escape to London.

Anthony Barrs is Warwickshire born and bred.
And after a life time in various businesses
he now lives in Scotland. On retirement
he returned to a craft he learned when he
left the RAF, and now collects and rebinds
antiquarian books. He is proud of his
Warwickshire roots which go back to his
great x5 grandfather Abraham Barrs who
was farming near Stratford upon Avon in the
early 1600's with a retired Shakespeare as a
near neighbour'