Shakespeare: The Life And Times Of This Great Playwright And His Masterpieces
Author: Claire Oliver
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: $14.95 NZD
: 9781860072406
: TickTock Books
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: 01 January 2001
: 242mm X 169mm X 6mm
: United Kingdom
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: Claire Oliver
: Snapping Turtle Guides: Great Writers
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: 80 colour illustrations
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Description
This fascinating introduction to the playwright begins with a description of the world in 1600 -- plague, famine and war -- "yet out of this turbulent world came one of the finest, most highly-respected and best-loved writers of all time". At the forefront of the English Renaissance Shakespeare began his career as a stagehand and then an actor, giving personal readings to Elizabeth I in her private chambers. Many of his plays have been turned into films, and he is still quoted today.
