Shakespeare: The Biography by Ackroyd, Peter

Shakespeare: The Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400075980)

Vendor: Peter Ackroyd
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$23.00
$23.00
$23.00
Subtotal: $23.00
Shakespeare: The Biography by Ackroyd, Peter

Shakespeare: The Biography

$23.00
Shakespeare: The Biography by Ackroyd, Peter

Shakespeare: The Biography

$23.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

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.

Author: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN-10: 140007598X
ISBN-13: 9781400075980
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2006
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 7.62h x 5.92w x 1.22d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.5
Point Value: 37
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 105351 / Shakespeare: The Biography
By Peter Ackroyd
By Peter Ackroyd
x

PETER ACKROYD is the bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction, most notably the definitive history of London, London, The Biography. His most recent books include The Lambs of London and J.M.W. Turner, the second biography in the Ackroyd Brief Lives series. He has also written full-scale biographies of Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More and the novels The Clerkenwell Tales, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America, and The Plato Papers. He has won the Whitbread Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature Award under the William Heinemann Bequest (jointly), the Somerset Maugham Award, the South Bank Award for Literature, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and The Guardian fiction prize. He lives in London.

Recently Viewed Products