Shakespeare : The Biography
by Ackroyd, Peter
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 074938655X
- ISBN 13
- 9780749386559
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Synopsis
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13905332-6
- Title
- Shakespeare : The Biography
- Author
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 074938655X
- ISBN 13
- 9780749386559
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- October 3, 2006