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Shakespeare: The Biography birds and kids and many other beloved classics--brilliantlyA TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re creates the world that shaped Shakespeare and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth century Stratford and the rural landscape the industry, the animals, even the flowers