Shakespeare : The Biography

Author(s): Ackroyd, Peter
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 07/09/2006,
Pagination: 576 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780749386559,
Description:

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.