I adored the facsimiles that came with the book, and it was fascinating to read about the world Shakespeare lived in and the effect he's had on different societies.

I knocked off a star because (I know, I know, they wrote it, but still) the Royal Shakespeare Company provided a lot of the pictures so it wasn't super diverse. And on page 46 there was a huge editing mistake - the box and photo are of John Dryden, but the text was actually the John Hall text from page 44. Sigh.