Shakespeare: The man and his achievement - Hardcover
Robert Speaight, renowned Shakespearian actor, producer and critic brings to life the world's greatest writer—dramatist and poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616). He humanizes Shakespeare's struggles, feuds, victories, and depressions while illuminating the plays and how they relate to his time and life. Speaight draws fascinating conclusions on controversial questions and provides a birds eye view of the life and times of this great English writer.
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William Shakespeare is generally thought to have been born on 23 April 1564, and the registers of Holy Trinity Church at Stratfordupon-Avon record his baptism on the 26th of that month. The rite was performed by the vicar, John Bretchgirdle, a stout Protestant from Christ Church, Oxford, and therefore according to the new Anglican liturgy which had been in force for only two years
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In every word he writes, Speaight's enthusiasm for his subject is evident. His approach is sober and sensible and his perceptions acute. If one wanted to recommend one book on Shakespeare for that desert island, this might be it. (The Economist)
[A] book alive with crisp inquiry. As a writer, Speaight has the perspicacity of a man of divided interests. He brings to his subject the flair and experience of the Shakespearean actor and producer and the insights of a critic of wide reading. He weighs the disputes and conjectures of the best Shakespearean scholars and knows how to excite conversation in the reader. He adotes the poet and, as a professional, he is especially aware of the practical dramatist. (V. S. Pritchett New Statesman)
With warmth and graceful phrasing—this is a highly readable book—Speaight guides readers unpatronizingly through the canon....The author is so wise a guide that his audience will return to [Shakespeare] with a renewed sense of his ever-fresh vitality. (The New Republic)
This portrait, this account of the period, this reading of the plays in terms of Shakespeare's known experience, his native town, his education, the works likely read by him, the London where he flourished, is the most persuasive I have read. It grips the reader. (Robert Kirsch Los Angeles Times)
[A] book alive with crisp inquiry. As a writer, Speaight has the perspicacity of a man of divided interests. He brings to his subject the flair and experience of the Shakespearean actor and producer and the insights of a critic of wide reading. He weighs the disputes and conjectures of the best Shakespearean scholars and knows how to excite conversation in the reader. He adotes the poet and, as a professional, he is especially aware of the practical dramatist. (V. S. Pritchett New Statesman)
With warmth and graceful phrasing—this is a highly readable book—Speaight guides readers unpatronizingly through the canon....The author is so wise a guide that his audience will return to [Shakespeare] with a renewed sense of his ever-fresh vitality. (The New Republic)
This portrait, this account of the period, this reading of the plays in terms of Shakespeare's known experience, his native town, his education, the works likely read by him, the London where he flourished, is the most persuasive I have read. It grips the reader. (Robert Kirsch Los Angeles Times)
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- PublisherJ. M. Dent
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0460042688
- ISBN 13 9780460042680
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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