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A gloriously playful retake of the biographies of Shakespeare and Marlowe. Working with hard facts and a healthy dose of conjecture, History Play questions the purpose of biography in a stunning narrative of the imagination. 'About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right, and if we can neve
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Rodney Bolt was born in South Africa. He studied at Rhodes University, where contact with Athol Fugard sparked his interest in theatre. Before leaving the country, he worked on anti-apartheid drama. His play Gandhi: Act Too won the 1980 Durban Critic Circles's Play of the Year award. For most of his adult life he has wandered in semi-exile through Europe, living in Greece, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. In 1980, he won a scholarship to Cambridge and read English at Corpus Christi. He has run a pub theatre and is now a travel writer and novelist. He has twice won Travel Writer of the Year.
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‘Bolt recreates an alternative life of Marlowe that compellingly views the known facts from a different angle.’ Independent
‘A learned and clever piece of historical investigation which cocks a snook as much at the heretics as at the orthodox.’ Independent on Sunday
‘“History Play” is a triumph because...its passion is with the search, with the idea of how our concepts of history and biography are created. “History Play” is, by turns, a jeu d’esprit, an examination of the idea of historical study and a play-filled novel. It made me laugh out loud. And most of all, it made me want to go back to the plays. This was a book that needed to be done perfectly or not at all. It is perfect.’ Spectator
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0007121237
- ISBN 13 9780007121236
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages388
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