Shakespeare - The Biography

Informationen zum Autor Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England . He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ackroyd
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.09.2006
• EAN: 9780749386559
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-8655-9
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Shakespeare, William, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Early 17th century c 1600 to c 1650, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Later 16th century c 1550 to c 1599, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean