By Me, William Shakespeare by Robert Payne (English) Paperback Book

Description: By Me, William Shakespeare by Robert Payne "....entertaining, and ... highly illuminating ... his research has been thorough and he offers some intriguing speculations regarding the influence on certain plays of ... national events ... He also offers some excellent shafts of criticism, particularly with respect to the final plays." -Publishers Weekly FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911-3 March 1983), was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. He worked as a shipbuilder and then for a time with the Inland Revenue. In 1941 he became an armament officer and chief camouflage officer for British Army Intelligence at Singapore. In the summer of 1946, Payne travelled to China and visited with and interviewed Mao Zedong in Yenan. During the interview Mao correctly predicted that it would only take the Communist forces a year and a half to conquer China once the armistice with Chiang Kai-shek and his followers was broken. Payne had over 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies. He was best known for the biographies, which included studies of Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, Dostoyevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Chiang Kai-shek, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Sun Yat-sen, André Malraux, Shakespeare, Alexander the Great, The White Rajahs of Sarawak and George C Marshall. As a novelist, Payne used the pseudonyms Richard Cargoe, John Anthony Devon, Howard Horne, Valentin Tikhonov, and Robert Young. For his biographies, he wrote under the name Robert Payne. In 1954, he published a pastiche novella, The Deluge, as Leonardo da Vinci; the book was mostly Paynes writing, incorporating "fragmentary da Vinci notes". Author Biography ROBERT CHARLES PAYNE is a motivational author, newspaper columnist for the Ouachita Citizen, and television and radio host. He served as the head football coach and athletic director at West Monroe High School and has experience teaching and working in the insurance industry. Review "...entertaining, and ... highly illuminating ... his research has been thorough and he offers some intriguing speculations regarding the influence on certain plays of ... national events ... He also offers some excellent shafts of criticism, particularly with respect to the final plays." -- Publishers Weekly"... (Payne) has the gift, as does John Keegan, of using prose to elevate facts, figures, dates and events into the realms of the dramatic."-- Amazon Reviewer"While comparatively little is known about William Shakespeare himself, one of the worlds authentic geniuses, there is a great deal known about the age in which he lived. Robert Payne has blended the little and the lot into a most appealing and memorable work. The parts dealing with the theatre of Shakespeares time are especially vivid, as are some of the anecdotes which have survived the passage of centuries. Payne is to be congratulated." -- Robert Cromie, Author / Critic Review Quote "...entertaining, and ... highly illuminating ... his research has been thorough and he offers some intriguing speculations regarding the influence on certain plays of ... national events ... He also offers some excellent shafts of criticism, particularly with respect to the final plays." -- Publishers Weekly Details ISBN1883283981 Author Robert Payne Pages 510 Language English ISBN-10 1883283981 ISBN-13 9781883283988 Media Book Publisher Brick Tower Press Year 2012 Imprint Brick Tower Press DEWEY B Country of Publication United States Format Paperback Short Title BY ME WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Place of Publication New York Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Affiliation American University of Paris France AU Release Date 2012-08-15 NZ Release Date 2012-08-15 UK Release Date 2012-08-15 Audience General Publication Date 2012-09-04 US Release Date 2012-09-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:44754912;

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