J. C. TREWIN - Portrait of the Shakespeare Country

London England, Robert Hale, 1970. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0709113420 Harback Hardback. The country round Stratford-upon-Avon, where William Shakespeare was bred and where he died, is that Henry James called 'the core and centre of the English world; unmitigated England'; and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford is the heart of the dramatist's country of the mind. This book, an affectionate portrait by a writer who is at once countryman and topographer, drama critic and Shakespearean, is a picture of Stratford through the years, of the face of south Warwichshire, of Arden and Feldon, battles, peoples, plays, and landscapes, great churches, hidden manors. The book is absorbing and individuao; and its illustrations match the text. Illustrated. 224 pp.