A fine account of Shakespeare.(Shakespeare: The Biography)(Book review)

Contemporary Review | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Shakespeare: The Biography. Peter Ackroyd. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiii + 546 pages. ISBN 1-85619-726-3.

This biography has many excellences. Mr Ackroyd is strong on London, as we would expect, and is intimately familiar with the textures of Elizabethan life--its lack of privacy, the minutiae of domestic transactions, the high infant mortality. When Shakespeare moved from Shoreditch it was to a better residential area, Bishopsgate. The author is also acutely aware of the Catholic connection, and never fails to point out those major figures whom ...

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