Shakespeare
Subtitle: the biography
By: Peter Ackroyd
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
Subjects: English Dramatists; Biography
Description: Biographer and novelist Ackroyd brings William Shakespeare to life in the manner of a contemporary rather than a biographer. 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. -- From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Chatto & Windus, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-548) and index.