In search of Shakespeare / Michael Wood.

London : BBC, 2005.

400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. maps, ports. (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm.

Originally published: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

'In Search of Shakespeare' explores the historical events that took place during Shakespeare's life to reveal a vital portrait of the artist and his work. Using documentary evidence this book reveals new and surprising insights into Shakespeare's life and work. Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective story, the acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood takes a fresh approach to Shakespeare's life, brilliantly recreating the turbulent times through which the poet lived: the age of the Reformation, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the colonization of the Americas. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, Michael Wood takes us back into Elizabethan England to reveal a man who is the product of his time - a period of tremendous upheaval that straddled the medieval and modern worlds. Using a wealth of unexplored archive evidence the author vividly conjures up the neighbourhoods of the Elizabethan London where Shakespeare lived and worked during his glittering career. Full of fresh insights and fascinating new discoveries, this book presents us with a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century: a man of the theatre, a thinking artist, playful and cunning who held up a mirror to his age, but who was also, as his friend Ben Jonson said, 'not of an age, but for all time'.

9780563521419 (pbk)

822.33
B/SHA

PR2900

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