Description
| Product ID: | 9780099599111 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Vintage Lives |
| Title: | Shakespeare |
| Authors: | Author: Anthony Burgess |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare studies & criticism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1996-08-08 |
