Upstart Crow

Ben Elton¿s multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.
He is married and has three children.

About the author

Ben Elton’s multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.

He is married and has three children.

Summary

"This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder" Radio Times"A knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare."

Product details

• Authors: Ben Elton, Elton Ben
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781787630093
• ISBN: 978-1-78763-009-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, DRAMA / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Screenwriting, TV tie-in humour, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Parodies and spoofs: non-fiction, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Television: styles and genres, Media tie-in humour