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William Shakespeare
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The Greatest Play Wrighter

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the English poet, playwright, and actor, is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time. His 39 plays, written for a small repertory theater in England at the turn of the 17th century, are still performed, studied, and read throughout the globe. Despite the fact that Shakespeare is one of the most enduringly famous authors in the English language, much of his life remains a mystery. The unanswered questions about Shakespeare, coupled with his literary genius, make him a rich subject for biographers. Of the many Shakespeare bios available, one of the most recent -- and certainly one of the raciest -- is Anthony Holden's William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius. The author reinvents a Bard for the 21st century, and according to USA Today, the biography is "mixed with genuine insight and literary insight...provides a wealth of information in the 'we never learned this in school' department." Anthony Burgess, author of the classic A Clockwork Orange and many other works, devoted his considerable energies to two books -- both fiction and nonfiction --- about the Bard. Nothing like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life is his novel about Shakespeare's lusty and turbulent affair with the Dark Lady of the sonnets. And The New York Review of Books's Reader's Catalog calls Burgess's biography Shakespeare "an apparition of the Bard which is more convincing than most." Another modern literary figure to investigate the great playwright was the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman, who reveals his obsession with Shakespeare's plays, characters, and poems in Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings. For those who think it's never too early to get a handle on the man who wrote Hamlet, the children's book Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare by Peter Vennema, illustrated by Diane Stanley will satisfy even the earliest craving for the Bard.

 

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