1997, ISBN: 9780316641852

London: Little, Brown & Co. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0316641855 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Brown cloth with bright white titling on spine. Il… Meer...

London: Little, Brown & Co. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0316641855 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Brown cloth with bright white titling on spine. Illustrated end papers. No ownership inscription. xiv, 367 pages clean and tight. Who was William Shakespeare? How did the "rude groom" from Stratford, the son of a glover who rose to be Mayor, grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? In the first popular biography of Shakespeare for quarter of a century, Anthony Holden sifts fact from legend to create a fresh, vivid portrait of the writer recently voted Man of the Millennium, brought alive for a new generation by the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love. The teenage Shakespeare was first sent. to a recusant Catholic household in Lancashire. After his shotgun wedding to Anne Hathaway, he turns actor to fill a vacancy caused by a duel among travelling players - and finds himself in Elizabeth I's London, where he moonlights as a horse-minder and prompter before playing small parts and co-writing plays. When the plague closes the theatres, he writes poems - which he thought would prove his real claim to immortality. Was he bisexual? Did he have anillegitimate son? As a member of a noble household, Shakespeare falls in love, endures the pangs of sexual jealousy, and catches the clap. By his retirement, four years before his death from drink at 52, he has become a wealthy landowner fretting about his daughters' future, haunted by the death of his son. Why did he stop writing? Or did he? Wearing his considerable learning lightly, Holden brilliantly interleaves the poet's own words with the known facts to breathe new life into a story never before told in such absorbing detail. "The perfectblend of erudition and accessibility" - the Daily Telegraph's verdict on his life of Tchaikovsky - applies equally to his revealing, very human portrait of Shakespeare, which will surely remain the standard study for many years to come. ., Little, Brown & Co, 1997, 2.75<

1999, ISBN: 0316641855

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[EAN: 9780316641852], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Little Brown Publishing, London], WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LIFE AND WORK ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His Life and Work. An… Meer...

[EAN: 9780316641852], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Little Brown Publishing, London], WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LIFE AND WORK ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY, Jacket, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His Life and Work. Anthony Holden. Little Brown Publishing, London 1999 First edition ISBN 0316641855 368pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in mint, unmarked condition in a mint unclipped dust wrapper. This biography of the most celebrated writer in history, tracks Shakespeare's life from his youth in the Warwickshire countryside before "disappearing" for seven years, to his life in London as an apprentice actor, his return to Stratford as a prosperous "gentleman" and his death at age 52. Dismissing claims that there is nothing left to say about Shakespeare, Holden's bold study argues that, on the contrary, there is a great deal to say about Shakespeare: The archives are in fact rich with traces of the Bard as husband, father, actor, dramatist, poet and Stratford lad made good. Holden also argues that "if each generation recreates Shakespeare in its own image", then we need a new version of the Bard in the 21st century. As a result he obliges with a racy, incident-packed account of the glovemaker's son from Stratford who rose to subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London. As well as poring over the established evidence, Holden makes some controversial, but intriguing claims. Not only was Shakespeare a covert Catholic, who spent his so-called "lost years" as a budding actor in Catholic households in Lancashire under the name of "Shakeshafte", but he also suffered from sexually transmitted diseases, experienced a nervous breakdown, fathered an illegitimate son via his middle- aged landlady and sailed close to the political wind with what Holden sees as his residual Catholic and "republican instincts". It's all very entertaining, if at timess lightly out on an interpretative limb, but this is a lively and refreshing approach to the Bard as an Elizabethan man behaving badly, which may not be for all time, but is pretty resonant for our times. Ref Z4, Books<

1997, ISBN: 0316641855

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[EAN: 9780316641852], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Little, Brown & Co, London], CHILDREN'S FICTION MONSTERS_FICTION, Jacket, Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Brown cloth with brigh… Meer...

[EAN: 9780316641852], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Little, Brown & Co, London], CHILDREN'S FICTION MONSTERS_FICTION, Jacket, Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Brown cloth with bright white titling on spine. Illustrated end papers. No ownership inscription. xiv, 367 pages clean and tight. Who was William Shakespeare? How did the "rude groom" from Stratford, the son of a glover who rose to be Mayor, grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? In the first popular biography of Shakespeare for quarter of a century, Anthony Holden sifts fact from legend to create a fresh, vivid portrait of the writer recently voted Man of the Millennium, brought alive for a new generation by the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love. The teenage Shakespeare was first sent. to a recusant Catholic household in Lancashire. After his shotgun wedding to Anne Hathaway, he turns actor to fill a vacancy caused by a duel among travelling players - and finds himself in Elizabeth I's London, where he moonlights as a horse-minder and prompter before playing small parts and co-writing plays. When the plague closes the theatres, he writes poems - which he thought would prove his real claim to immortality. Was he bisexual? Did he have anillegitimate son? As a member of a noble household, Shakespeare falls in love, endures the pangs of sexual jealousy, and catches the clap. By his retirement, four years before his death from drink at 52, he has become a wealthy landowner fretting about his daughters' future, haunted by the death of his son. Why did he stop writing? Or did he? Wearing his considerable learning lightly, Holden brilliantly interleaves the poet's own words with the known facts to breathe new life into a story never before told in such absorbing detail. "The perfectblend of erudition and accessibility" - the Daily Telegraph's verdict on his life of Tchaikovsky - applies equally to his revealing, very human portrait of Shakespeare, which will surely remain the standard study for many years to come. Size: 8vo, Books<

1999, ISBN: 0316641855

[EAN: 9780316641852], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Little, Brown Publishing], First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Very Good condition, bump to top front corner otherwise Fin… Meer...

[EAN: 9780316641852], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Little, Brown Publishing], First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Very Good condition, bump to top front corner otherwise Fine, in a Very Good dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). Overseas buyers please also note that shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel., Books<

1999, ISBN: 0316641855

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