Shakespeare: The Life and Times of This Great Playwright and His Masterpieces (Snapping Turtle Guides: Great Writers)

by Claire Oliver (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.56

  This fascinating introduction to the playwright begins with a description of the world in 1600 -- plague, famine and war -- yet out of this turbulent world came one of the finest, most highly-respected and best-loved writers of all time . At the forefront of the English Renaissance Shakespeare began his career as a stagehand and then an actor, giving personal readings to Elizabeth I in her private chambers. Many of his plays have been turned into films, and he is still quoted today.