Following his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Ackroyd delivers his crowning achievement with this definitive and imaginative biographical masterpiece of William Shakespeare. “Ackroyd brings to his biographical reading the imaginative insights of a gifted poet and novelist, along with the passions of a scholar….Vivid and capacious, a life study worthy of its subject.”—Booklist
