Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare
ISBN-10
0670914827
ISBN-13
9780670914821
Series
Soul of the Age
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
500
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Viking
Author
Jonathan Bate

Description

In this stunning new biography, Jonathan Bate weaves an exhilarating tapestry of the Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues that shaped and informed Shakespeare's mind. In the midst of this extraordinary, colourful and often violent world, he traces Shakespeare's various incarnations- precocious grammar-school boy, thoughtful young lover, canny businessman, social climber, caring father. Gradually, Shakespeare emerges in a portrait that is vivid, nuanced and completely fresh- a man who was both timelessly talented and, in the words of his friend and rival Ben Jonson, the very soul of the Elizabethan age.

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