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While literary biography Peter Ackroyd breaks little new ground here, he successfully and beautifully amalgamates what scholars know about the enigmatic and forever popular playwright, mining the plays and sonnets for insight into Shakespeare's personality and personal history, and bringing to life the colorful milieu in which he lived and wrote. The entry into Shakespeare's world is made complete by Ackroyd's use of the original Elizabethan-era English spellings for Shakespearean quotations, one of which heads every chapter.
| Size | | Length: | 592 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Newcomers to Shakespearean studies will find this a good place to start."
Kirkus (07/01/2005)
"At their best, Shakespearean biographers are like great jazz musicians, able to take a few notes of an old standard and spin them into dizzying riffs of conjecture....Peter Ackroyd can riff with the best, and he brings to the task of making the old facts fresh some themes and variations of his own that deserve a hearing."
Publishers Weekly - Ron Rosenbaum (07/11/2005)
"[Ackroyd displays] a vivid grasp of the material elements of the daily life of long-lost England....These details of imaginative reconstruction are the strongest elements of the book, and Ackroyd confidently places Shakespeare within them."
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