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William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements

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William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements

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SKU: 9781849311311 Categories: , Product ID: 262769

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Title: William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements
Author: WORTH PRESS
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/10/2016
Imprint: WORTH PRESS
Price: $19.95
Publishing status: Active

• This highly illustrated book is crammed
with images and facts that encapsulate the
glory of this amazing man, his life, his works
(that include plays, poetry and sonnets), his
language and legacy
William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and died
23 April 1616, four hundred years ago. Today the
bard from Queen Elizabeth’s I’s Merrie England is
the most-read author in the world. His works are
truly international, with copies of plays and poetry
by William Shakespeare exceeding four billion. He is
among the most translated authors in history, eclipsed
only by the Bible. Shakespeare penned some of the most
celebrated dramas, but also added to the language,
inventing an amazing 1,700 new words.
His father was a glove maker, leather worker and
wool merchant; his mother, Mary Arden, was from
a landowning family. One of eight children, young
Shakespeare was probably educated at the local King
Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford but would
eventually make his name as an actor and playwright
in London. Now, some four centuries onward,
Shakespeare’s writings continue to enthrall and
enrapture audiences, to inspire and thrill, not just
at Stratford or in London’s Globe Theatre but in every
corner of the worldwide globe.

ISBN: 9781849311311
Dimension: 270mm X 210mm
Edition: 01

Additional information

Dimensions 270 × 210 mm