Description

Pulling on a great mixture of abilities as literary biographer, author, and chronicler of London background, Peter Ackroyd certainly re creates the planet that formed Shakespeare--and provides the playwright herself into abnormally vibrant emphasis. With characteristic story style, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth century Stratford and the outlying landscape–the business, the creatures, also the flowers–that seems in Shakespeare’s plays. He takes us through Shakespeare’s Birmingham community and the rich, aggressive theatre globe where he worked as author and actor. He shows us Shakespeare like a businessman, and as a continuing reviser of his writing.