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Shakespeare / Anthony Burgess.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2894 .W568 1970
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Biography.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
- Dramatists, English.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (autograph) (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], 1970.
- Contents:
- Home
- School
- Work, Play
- Marriage
- London
- Drama
- Shakescene
- Patron
- Friend
- Mistress
- Gentleman
- Globe
- Poets' War
- Rebellion
- Royal Deaths
- VI & I
- Sick World
- New Place
- Swansong
- Will.
- Notes:
- "First American Edition."
- "This book was designed and produced in Great Britain by George Rainbird Ltd ..."
- "Filmset in 11/13 pt. Monophoto Plantin 110."
- "This is not a book about Shakespeare's plays and poems. It is yet another attempt - the nth - to set down the main facts about the life and society from which the poems and plays arose."--Foreword.
- Illustrated lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (page [266]) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Adena and Chaim Potok December 1970".
- Potok Collection copy has note from Bob Gottlieb taped to front free endpaper "Dear ones - Happy holidays - Happy next year -- Happy even times else, always, from your loving BG".
- OCLC:
- 98822
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