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Shakespeare
Anthony Burgess
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Description for Shakespeare
Paperback. This biography of William Shakespeare aims to build up a profound sense of literary and theatrical history, and the energy of the Elizabethan age. Series: Vintage Lives. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespeare's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.
Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespeare's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
Vintage Lives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099599111
SKU
V9780099599111
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About Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He served in the British army from 1940 to 1946 and was a schoolteacher in England before becoming a colonial education officer in 1954. His Malayan trilogy of novels and a history of English literature were published while he was living in Malaya and ... Read more
Reviews for Shakespeare
Bright, racy...knowledgeable and humorous, alternately sensible and quirky.
Terry Eagleton Anthony Burgess's wonderfully well-stocked mind and essentially wayward spirit are just right for summoning up an apparition of the Bard which is more convincing than most
David Holloway
Daily Telegraph
Animated by affection and an understanding of the creative imagination that only a creative writer can ... Read more
Terry Eagleton Anthony Burgess's wonderfully well-stocked mind and essentially wayward spirit are just right for summoning up an apparition of the Bard which is more convincing than most
David Holloway
Daily Telegraph
Animated by affection and an understanding of the creative imagination that only a creative writer can ... Read more