Shakespeare - Couverture souple

Burgess, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786709723 ISBN 13 : 9780786709724

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2002

Synopsis

Shakespeare Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography, a theatrical history, and a re-creation of the Elizabethan age. Whether a vivid retracing of the evolution Elizabethan theater, a bravura reconstruction of the first performance of Hamlet, an infiltration of the intricacies of the court of the Virgin Queen, or an elegy on the era's end with the distrastrous Essex Rebellion, Burgess -- author of the classic A Clockwork Orange -- sets...

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Bright, racy...knowledgeable and humorous, alternately sensible and quirky." (Terry Eagleton)

"Anthony Burgess's wonderfully well-stocked mind and essentially wayward spirit are just right for summoning up an apparition of the Bard which is more convincing than most" (David Holloway Daily Telegraph)

"Animated by affection and an understanding of the creative imagination that only a creative writer can bring to bear" (Atlantic)

"A smooth-flowing narrative, often enlivened by Anthony Burgess's Joycean appetite for linguistic fantasy" (The Economist)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespeare's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786709723
• ISBN 13: 9780786709724
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256