This book is about Shakespeare and his contemporaries, about poetry and history, but above all it is about love. The English writer Anthony Burgess is known to us as the author of the acclaimed A Clockwork Orange, but his novel about Shakespeare can give the impression of a bomb exploding. Ironically reinterpreting, almost parodying the classic biographical novel, the author fills Shakespeare's life story with vivid events, turning our ideas about the great poet and his surroundings upside down. Paradoxically, Burgess breathes life into the textbook images of the King of the Sonnets himself, his wife Anne and even the mysterious Dark Lady, whose identity still remains a mystery. But the most amazing thing is that only after reading this book, you begin to understand the true meaning of famous creations.