Full name: Shakespeare: The Biography

Author: Peter Ackroyd Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781400075980

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. Similar books: Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd London by Peter Ackroyd Newton by Peter Ackroyd Shakespeare by Park Honan Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Albion by Peter Ackroyd Shakespeare's Life and World by Katherine Duncan-Jones Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood Players by Bertram Fields Shakespeare's Lives by Samuel Schoenbaum The Lodger Shakespeare by Charles Nicholl Brief Lives by John Aubrey That Woman by Anne Sebba The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate Nightingales by Gillian Gill Harriet Beecher Stowe by Joan D. Hedrick The Wright Brothers by David McCullough