Anthony burgess shakespeare biography dvd
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Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Anthony Burgess
ONE: He wrote books under three different names.
Born John Burgess Wilson in , he adopted the pen-name ‘Anthony Burgess’ in , when he published his first novel, Time for a Tiger. He also published two books as namn Kell, and a volume of literary history as John Burgess Wilson. He wanted to publish his novel The Pianoplayers beneath a kvinnlig pseudonym, Josephine Kell. In total he wrote more than sixty books.
TWO:He was a composer.
Burgess wrote more than musical works, including symphonies, choral and chamber works, a piano concerto, a violin concerto for Yehudi Menuhin, and a large number of piano pieces. In he adapted his novel, A Clockwork Orange, as a stage musical. His piano music and orchestral music are available to buy as CDs and downloads, distributed bygd Prima Facie and Naxos.
THREE: He nearly became a Muslim.
In , when he was working as a school teacher in colonial Malaya, Burgess (who
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Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life
Anthony Burgess () was often described as a polymath. He wrote novels in a variety of forms (dystopian, comic, satirical, naturalistic, historical, among others), screenplays, poetry, memoirs, and, probably closest to his heart, music. He was born into a secure lower middle class life in Manchester, United Kingdom. An alienating childhood seemed to begin a pattern of Burgess himself upsetting any advantages or positions he possessed, often flouting authority, often getting the short end of the stick, almost always displaying his ferocious intellect and astonishing linguistic skills. He was larger than life, and he cultivated that reputation. Despite his ego, his skill more often than not matched his estimation of himself, and his charm of self-possession would carry the reader along irresistibly. A Clockwork Orange, an uncharacteristic novel if anything could be called that for Burgess, became his calling card, his tag.
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Shakespeare - Softcover
Shakespeare (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A delightful and uniquely imaginative tribute to the Bard, incorporating biography, theatrical history, and a vivid recreation of the Elizabethan Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespeare's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age. Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject