Shakespeare
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Anthony Burgess's Shakespeare stands as one of the most audacious and brilliantly conceived biographical studies of the English language's greatest writer — a work that dares to imagine the inner life of William Shakespeare with the authority of a fellow literary genius. Burgess reconstructs the world of Elizabethan England with vivid precision, tracing the arc of Shakespeare's life from his provincial origins in Stratford-upon-Avon through the teeming theatrical world of London, illuminating how a glover's son became the immortal voice of the human condition. The narrative weaves together meticulous historical research and inspired creative conjecture, painting a portrait of a man simultaneously ordinary and transcendent, driven by ambition, love, financial necessity, and an unquenchable artistic compulsion. Burgess, himself a novelist of formidable reputation, brings a rare dual perspective to the subject — that of the scholar and the practising craftsman — resulting in a biography that reads with the propulsive energy of fiction while never sacrificing intellectual rigour. He argues convincingly that Shakespeare's genius was not born of divine inspiration alone, but was forged in the rough-and-tumble of commercial theatre, personal hardship, and relentless creative labour. Written with wit, erudition, and an infectious passion for the subject, this is a work that leaves the reader questioning how much of Shakespeare's art was confession, and how much was calculated illusion.
Author: Anthony Burgess
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Anthony Burgess's Shakespeare stands as one of the most audacious and brilliantly conceived biographical studies of the English language's greatest writer — a work that dares to imagine the inner life of William Shakespeare with the authority of a fellow literary genius. Burgess reconstructs the world of Elizabethan England with vivid precision, tracing the arc of Shakespeare's life from his provincial origins in Stratford-upon-Avon through the teeming theatrical world of London, illuminating how a glover's son became the immortal voice of the human condition. The narrative weaves together meticulous historical research and inspired creative conjecture, painting a portrait of a man simultaneously ordinary and transcendent, driven by ambition, love, financial necessity, and an unquenchable artistic compulsion. Burgess, himself a novelist of formidable reputation, brings a rare dual perspective to the subject — that of the scholar and the practising craftsman — resulting in a biography that reads with the propulsive energy of fiction while never sacrificing intellectual rigour. He argues convincingly that Shakespeare's genius was not born of divine inspiration alone, but was forged in the rough-and-tumble of commercial theatre, personal hardship, and relentless creative labour. Written with wit, erudition, and an infectious passion for the subject, this is a work that leaves the reader questioning how much of Shakespeare's art was confession, and how much was calculated illusion.