Shakespeare: The Biography
Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare. He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground. Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book by a writer about a writer, and a fascinating and detailed depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited. First published 2005.
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"You will not find a better book on Shakespeare . . . Ackroyd has genuinely set a new standard for accounts of Shakespeare's life."
-Colin MacCabe, "Independent"
"If you were to read only one book on Shakespeare, you would do well with this one."
-Allan Massie, "Literary Review"
"Shakespeare: The Biography is everything one would expect from a biographer at the top of his game . . . his recreation of London life is masterful. He knows the plays and understands better than academic biographers how Shakespeare went about researching and writing . . . His biography ranks with the best of them."
-"Financial Times"
"His biography is conventional, even cautious; grounded in common sense and wide reading, and written with the sensibility of a working novelist."
-Nicholas Shakespeare, "Saturday Telegraph"
General Fields
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- : Random House UK
- : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
- : 0.386
- : October 2006
- : 199mm X 131mm X 31mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Peter Ackroyd
- : Paperback
