Shakespeare: The Biography
Good Books rating 4.27
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- ID: 171
- Added: 2025-09-03
- Updated: 2025-09-03
- ISBN: 9780749386559
- Publisher: Random House
- Published: 2006-01-01
- Reviews: 3
Peter Ackroyd's method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2005.
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- This is a splendid and thoroughly absorbing book.
- Ackroyd’s portrayal vividly brings Shakespeare’s world to life.
- A rich mosaic that captures the spirit of the Elizabethan era.
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- Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare.
- Readers looking for something definitive... should look elsewhere.
- An intriguing look at the life of the greatest English writer who ever lived.
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- The great strength of Ackroyd's book is the depth of his immersion in the culture of Shakespeare's age.
- His feeling for the role of the theater in Elizabethan London... seems to come from an impressively wide reading.
- Ackroyd constructs an intricate mosaic of Elizabethan context, which brings us closer to the shadowy figure.