By Michael Wood
ISBN-10: 1473530253
ISBN-13: 9781473530256
Publish 12 months note: First released in 2005
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Almost four hundred years after his demise, William Shakespeare continues to be acclaimed because the world's maximum author, and but the fellow himself is still shrouded in secret. during this soaking up ancient detective tale, the acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael wooden takes a clean method of Shakespeare's existence, brilliantly recreating the turbulent occasions wherein the poet lived: the age of the Reformation, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the colonization of the Americas.
Drawing on an intensive diversity of assets, Michael wooden takes us again into Elizabethan England to bare a guy who's the made from his time - a interval of large upheaval that straddled the medieval and sleek worlds. utilizing a wealth of unexplored archive facts the writer vividly inspires the neighbourhoods of the Elizabethan London the place Shakespeare lived and labored in the course of his glittering profession. jam-packed with clean insights and interesting new discoveries, this e-book provides us with a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century: a guy of the theatre, a pondering artist, playful and crafty who held up a replicate to his age, yet who used to be additionally, as his pal Ben Jonson acknowledged, 'not of an age, yet for all time'.
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