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quite unlike other more analytic biographies that have been written. Rather, Peter Ackroyd has used his skill, his extraordinary knowledge, and his historical intuition to craft this major full-scale book on one of the most towering figures of the English
Nan A. Talese
October 2005
Featuring: William Shakespeare
592 pages
ISBN: 0385511396
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
In a magnificent feat of re-creating sixteenth-century
London and Stratford, bestselling biographer and novelist
Peter Ackroyd brings William Shakespeare to life in the
manner of a contemporary rather than a biographer.
Following his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the
lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, and
Sir Thomas More, Ackroyd delivers his crowning achievement
with this definitive and imaginative biographical
masterpiece. Thousands of books have been written about the playwright,
but none has borne Ackroyd’s unique and accessible stamp.
His method is to position the playwright in the context of
his world, exploring everything from Stratford’s humble
town to its fields of wildflowers; discerning influences on
the plays from unexpected quarters; and entering London
with the playwright as modern theatre, as we know it, is
just beginning to emerge. Writing as though we are observing Shakespeare and his
circle of friends, patrons, managers, and fellow actors and
writers, Ackroyd is able to see Shakespeare's genius from
within, so we feel that Ackroyd the writer merges with
Shakespeare the writer, the poet, the man; and thus with
great sympathy and clarity we experience the way in which
Shakespeare worked.
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