Peter ackroyd shakespeare the biography

          Peter Ackroyd's marvelous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.

        1. Peter Ackroyd's marvelous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.
        2. Peter Ackroyd's enthusiastic study of the Bard, Shakespeare, joins a crowded field, says Stanley Wells.
        3. A fascinating, masterful, and detailed look into the life of the greatest figure in English literature.
        4. Shakespeare: the biography.
        5. A magnificent achievement, SHAKESPEARE will command popular success, scholarly acclaim and vast sales - truly comparable to LONDON.

          6. A fascinating, masterful, and detailed look into the life of the greatest figure in English literature.!

          Shakespeare: The Biography

          October 11, 2012
          At predictable intervals over the course of the last four centuries, some cynical iconoclast has suggested that William Shakespeare was a simple-minded actor from the hinterlands who was hired by an Oxford-educated aristocrat to serve as the public face for his plays.

          The latest incarnation of this hackneyed libel against Shakespeare is last year's box office bomb ANONYMOUS, which rather shamelessly attributes Shakespeare's canon to the Earl of Oxford. These Anti-Stratfordists are, of course, the very worst sort of intellectual elitists who indulge themselves in the most juvenile sort of contempt for history and historical method.

          But they almost always get noticed by the popular press and their claptrap is usually successful at muddying the waters and undermining the reputation of England's greatest literary figure.

          Ackroyd, like Schoenbaum a generation ago, goes to great lengths to present the wealth of records extant from Shakespeare's