Shakespeare Author:Anthony Burgess Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally creative treatment of the little we actually know about grain salesman Will-from-Stratford combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography, a theat... more »rical history, and a re-creation of the Elizabethan age. Whether a vivid retracing of the evolution Elizabethan theater, a bravura reconstruction of the first performance of Hamlet, an infiltration of the intricacies of the court of the Virgin Queen, or an elegy on the era's end with the disastrous Essex Rebellion, Burgess sets the stage for England's most glorious time and turns the spotlight on the figure of William Shake-speare. Even readers who have a good grasp of Shake-speare's works will find this interesting reading.« less