William Shakespeare: A Popular Life gives an entirely fresh spin to the bard's life and work. O'Connor presents Shakespeare as a full-bloodied person as opposed to the nearly sainted playwright of some critics' imaginations.
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William Shakespeare: A Popular Life gives an entirely fresh spin to the bard's life and work. O'Connor presents Shakespeare as a full-bloodied person as opposed to the nearly sainted playwright of some critics' imaginations.
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(Applause Books). Garry O'Connor's biography creates a vivd impression of Shakespeare's family life, his marriage and sexuality, the intimate details of his background, and his relationships with the theatre, his audiences and the towering political figures of his time such as Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. It captures the darkness and confusion of his religious feelings, and his painful search for identity as well as his continuous commitments to change and development. O'Connor imaginatively and persuasively reconstructs the playwright's life and career.
Critic Reviews
"A challenging and lively portrait." -Independent on Sunday "A vivid re-creation of Shakespeare's career." -Dally Telegraph "Reconstructs the world of Elizabethan theatre." -Sunday Telegraph "Authoritative, riveting... scholarly and stylish." -Plays and Players "O'Connor's Shakespeare is a man of the theatre and the smell of the theatre is never far away." -Sir Peter Hail "His knowledge and love of Shakespeare's plays will encourage some readers to look at them again on the page or stage or both" -Benedict Nightingale, The Times Our opinion: "If you like your bard a la "Shakespeare in Love", you'll like Gary O'Connors illuminating and entertaining biography."
About the Author
Garry O'Connor has been a major and prolific English biographer since his life of Ralph Richardson, published in 1980, was hailed in "The New York Times Book Review" as "Stunning... the best biography of an actor I've ever read," and by the "London Sunday Times" as an "astounding book, original in form and fascinating in content." He has subsequently written highly praised lives of Sean O'Casey, Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Scofield and William Shakespeare and, most recently, Alec Guinness. He lives in England with his wife and six children.
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