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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 37
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English
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A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Drawing 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
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English
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Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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One of Britain's best-known screenwriters and dramatists presents a vibrant account of becoming a writer amid the enormous flux of postwar England, from his university days at Cambridge to his breakthrough success as a playwright
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William Morrow and Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
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"William Shakespeare's life has been the subject of innumerable myths, yet tantalizingly little is known about the motives, passions, conflicts, ideas, and struggles that shaped him." "Now Dennis Kay looks beyond the established facts of Shakespeare's life and traces how the events of his era affected the way he lived, thought, and wrote. The extraordinary artistic and intellectual achievements of Renaissance England were forged in a time of great...
8) Shakespeare
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Knopf
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Blend of biography, anecdotes, speculations, critical commentary and personal insights
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Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The life and times of a professional actor, businessman, and playwright who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and whose plays are still performed and valued for their insights into human nature.
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Norton
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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The theater for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. This title offers an account of Shakespeare's character and the blossoming of his talent
18) Shakespeare
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Series
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DK Pub
Pub. Date
2002-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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A biography of the Bard written especially for children. It profiles the life and times of Shakespeare, peppered with quotes from plays he wrote, and includes short synopses of the more famous ones.
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