The Private Life of William Shakespeare - Paperbackby Lena Cowen Orlin (Author) The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man in Stratford upon Avon. Cowen Orlin offers close readings of key archival documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge, reconsidering clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables. Cowen Orlin argues, too, that the