Shakespeare

While literary biography Peter Ackroyd breaks little new ground here, he successfully and beautifully amalgamates what scholars know about the enigmatic and forever popular playwright, mining the plays and sonnets for insight into Shakespeare`s personality and personal history, and bringing to life the colorful milieu in which he lived and wrote. The entry into Shakespeare`s world is made complete by Ackroyd`s use of the original Elizabethan-era English spellings for Shakespearean quotations, one of which heads every chapter. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.