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Shakespeare : The Biography by Ackroyd, Peter is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Shakespeare : The Biography about?
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth-century Stratford and the rural landscape--the industry, the animals, even the flowers--that would appear in Shakespeare's plays. He takes us through Shakespeare's London neighborhood and the fertile, competitive theater world where he worked as actor and writer. He shows us Shakespeare as a businessman, and as a constant reviser of his writing. In joining these intimate details with profound intuitions about the playwright and his work, Ackroyd has produced an altogether engaging masterpiece. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307490827
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (1,339 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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