MUCH ADO ABOUT A MYSTERY. What happened to the real William Shakespeare in his twenties? How did a rustic lad disappear from historical records in 1585 and burst into view on London's stage eight years later transformed into a playwright sophisticated in the complexities of political, social and romantic intrigue? This wildly imaginative yarn with a strong historical flavor follows young Will on tantalizing and comedic adventures with spies and scholars, a plot to kill a queen, treachery in foreign lands, poetic interludes, battles at sea, encounters with great minds and the carnal, bloody...