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Author: Anthony Burgess
Genre: Literary Fiction
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749079697
Pages: 242
Rights: UK & Comm
Pub. Date: 23rd February 2009
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Price: £8.99
Format: Paperback
This is a novel about Shakespeare ... Shakespeare the lover. Through the distorted vision of a university lecturer, the truth about Shakespeare's sex-life emerges: his affairs with a black woman and a golden man, his conflicted relationship with his wife, his affection for a young boy. Rich in language and soaked in the Elizabethan spirit, this novel has emerged as a modern classic.
'A novel which is a Shakespearean celebration all bby itself. The Dark Lady, Mr W.H., play-making, politics, actors, and the daily stuff of life wound together in Burgess Elizabethan, a dazzling prose style spun from a boundless obsession with words.'The Observer
'Shakespeare in his own stirring times, affected by historic events, suffering or triumphant with the day's news, meeting his fellow poets, and always living the secret life of the imagination...The more you know about the plays and the periods, the more you will appreciate the subtle touches that give their similtude to the tale.'Times Literary Supplement
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