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Shakespeare / Anthony Burgess.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2894 .B79 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
- Dramatists, English.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 251 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Carroll and Graf trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2002.
- Summary:
- Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography, a theatrical history, and a re-creation of the Elizabethan age. Whether a vivid retracing of the evolution Elizabethan theater, a bravura reconstruction of the first performance of Hamlet, an infiltration of the intricacies of the court of the Virgin Queen, or an elegy on the era's end with the distrastrous Essex Rebellion, Burgess sets the stage for England's most glorious time and turns the spotlight on the figure of William Shakespeare.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0786709723
- OCLC:
- 49196397
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