Entertaining the Alien

18. Will, Grace Tiffany

The first of what I imagine will be many books I'll read on my lunch hour at work. Grace Tiffany is apparently a professor at Western Michigan and a Shakespeare historian. Don't let that fool you though, Will is not a scholarly work, but a rather light historical novel about Shakespeare. I enjoyed it, but I have a feeling there are better versions of similar stories out there.

Tiffany focuses primarily on Shakespeare's relationship with his wife, and how events in his real life may or may not have influenced the plays he wrote. Interestingly, her first novel, My Father Had a Daughter was apparently written from the perspective of Judith Shakespeare, who also appears in Will. I'd be curious to read it. She writes well enough, but it's sort of fluffy, not the sort of thing that hangs around a lot longer than a few days after you finish it.