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Title details for A Life of Shakespeare by Hesketh Pearson - Available

A Life of Shakespeare

by Hesketh Pearson
Simon Russell Beale
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A popular biography which looks at the life of the playwright in part through the plays themselves. The intricacies of Elizabethan drama set the background for the tale of the greatest dramatist.

Music: Music of the period

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  • Release date

    April 28, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • File size: 75383 KB
      • Duration: 02:37:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A short life of Shakespeare is particularly appropriate, given how little hard fact is knowable; this one is brief but particularly well suited to this series' format. Readings from the plays alternate here with Elizabethan music and with interesting fact or speculation on Shakespeare's parents, his marriage, and how his characters may have sprung from his surroundings and events of the times. Pearson is particularly good on Shakespeare's relationship with his queen (he did not like being ordered to show Falstaff in love). The commentary on the plays and Elizabethan theater is wise and interesting, if not always conclusive; the readers of the connective text and the play excerpts are marvelous. A delight. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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