{"product_id":"shakespeare-the-biography-9781400075980","title":"Shakespeare: The Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth-century Stratford and the rural landscape-the industry, the animals, even the flowers-that would appear in Shakespeare's plays. He takes us through Shakespeare's London neighborhood and the fertile, competitive theater world where he worked as actor and writer. He shows us Shakespeare as a businessman, and as a constant reviser of his writing. In joining these intimate details with profound intuitions about the playwright and his work, Ackroyd has produced an altogether engaging masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETER ACKROYD \u003c\/b\u003eis the bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction, most notably the definitive history of London, \u003ci\u003eLondon, The Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Lambs of London \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJ.M.W. Turner, \u003c\/i\u003ethe second biography in the Ackroyd Brief Lives series. He has also written full-scale biographies of Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More and the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Clerkenwell Tales, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Plato Papers\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the Whitbread Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature Award under the William Heinemann Bequest (jointly), the Somerset Maugham Award, the South Bank Award for Literature, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and The Guardian fiction prize. He lives in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334372495634,"sku":"9781400075980","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0994c365-2e61-45c0-b412-f8934d3fbf26.jpg?v=1727888702","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeare-the-biography-9781400075980","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}