Shakespeare: The Biography
by:
Peter Ackroyd (author)
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd...
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Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth-century Stratford and the rural landscape–the industry, the animals, even the flowers–that would appear in Shakespeare’s plays. He takes us through Shakespeare’s London neighborhood and the fertile, competitive theater world where he worked as actor and writer. He shows us Shakespeare as a businessman, and as a constant reviser of his writing. In joining these intimate details with profound intuitions about the playwright and his work, Ackroyd has produced an altogether engaging masterpiece.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400075980 (140007598X)
ASIN: 140007598X
Publish date: November 14th 2006
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 572
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Books About Books,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Biography Memoir
To quote The Bard "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ". In fairness to Mr. Ackroyd,it was probably an unfair expectation to think that any biography of a 16th century writer, even the most read author in history, would have rock star magnitude.
I always dread the time of year when your English teacher wants you to read a biography. I have English Lit. this year so I could only read a biography about someone from England. I honestly just picked this up at the library and expected to drudge through it. I was pleasently surprised when I found...