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Overview
“Shakespeare in his own stirring times . . . suffering or triumphant with the day’s news. . . . Brilliant.”—Times Literary Supplement
A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life, following young Will’s maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of time and place, and the ordinariness that is found side by side with the extraordinariness of genius.
“Burgess can remake reality not only in his own writing but also in a new perception of the writings of his subject.”—New York Times Book Review
Editorials
Aileen Pippett
Shakespeare in his own stirring times, affected by historic events, suffering or triumphant with the day's news, meeting his fellow poets, and always living the secret life of the imagination….The more you know about the plays and the periods, the more you will appreciate the subtle touches that give their similitude to the tale.—Times Literary Supplement (London)
D. J. Enright
Nothing Like the Sun is a clever, tightly constructed book, reminiscent in its smaller and more sensational way of Mann's Doctor Faustus, full of the author's old verbal ingenuity...—New Stateman