Random House UK SHAKESPEARE: The Biography - ACKROYD, P.

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Publikace: SHAKESPEARE: The Biography - ACKROYD, P.. 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. Publikace: SHAKESPEARE: The Biography - ACKROYD, P.. Written with intuition and imagination, this marvellous biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world. Ackroyd writes about Shakespeare the actor, playwright and poet, and also about his circle of patrons and managers, actors and fellow writers. He also imparts an amazing amount of vivid material about place, period and background as he travels through 16th century Stratford and London. The book is neither academic nor didactic; it is an attempt at immediate and intimate communion with Shakespeare himself.