Description
| Product ID: | 9780749386559 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Shakespeare |
| Subtitle: | The Biography |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Ackroyd |
| Page Count: | 560 |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Shakespeare studies & criticism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited. Peter Ackroyd''s marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground.Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book by a writer about a writer, and a fascinating and detailed depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-09-07 |