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Shakespeare: The Biography

Book ID
127131316
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Standards

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✦ Synopsis

Peter Ackroyd's biographies of Blake, Chaucer, Dickens, and Sir Thomas More have established him as an acknowledged master of the genre. With a biography of Shakespeare, however, no reputation is secure: Stratford specialists generally regard all outsiders as poachers. Fortunately, Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The Biography lives up to our expectations, displaying an abundant mix of careful research and lively speculation. Too learned and wise to conjure up a definitive Shakespeare, he attempts instead to present his subject in winning multiplicity. "Ackroyd," as one reviewer said, "can riff with the best... He brings to the task of making the old facts fresh some themes and variations of his own."

✦ Subjects

Биографии и Мемуары

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