Soul of the Age
The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare
$40.64
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
13 July 2009
Summary
‘Intensely enjoyable … you find yourself gasping with pleasure’ John Carey, Sunday Times
How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom’s dream rewrite the Bible? How did Shakespeare’s plays lead to the deaths of an earl and a king? And why was he the one dramatist of his generation never to be imprisoned?
Weaving a dazzling tapestry of Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues, Soul of the Age leads u…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141015866 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141015861 |
| Author: | Sir Jonathan Bate, Jonathan Bate |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 13 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 34mm |
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Critics Review
‘An excellent writer ! he achieves a resonant and complex portrait, constantly alert to new lines of enquiry and unexpected conclusions … A triumph of precision, learning and intelligent innovation’ - Charles Nicholl, Sunday Telegraph, Book of the Week ‘Bate probably knows as much as any single person can know about Shakespeare … Surprising, fresh, exhilarating, brilliant’ - Richard Eyre, Guardian ‘Wholehearted applause for Bate’s portrayal of Shakespeare’s world … it is pure pleasure … I defy any reader, no matter how saturated in Shakespeare, not to find something new here’ Independent on Sunday
About The Author
Sir Jonathan Bate
Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, chief editor of The RSC Shakespeare- Complete Works and the author of many books, including most recently John Clare- A Biography, which won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature and the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. A Fellow of the British Academy, he was awarded a CBE in 2006.
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