Burgess and Shakespeare
Nothing Like The Sun:
othing Like The Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love-Life was published in to mark the th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.
Beginning with Shakespeare’s early life, the novel follows Will as he grows up both romantically and artistically. Written in a version of Elizabethan English, it is wildly inventive, full of bawdy humour and references to Shakespeare’s poems, plays and the texture of its historical setting.
Burgess described writing the novel as ‘the hardest I had ever undertaken’. The language is dense and allusive, and the style – consciously modelled on Joyce’s Ulysses, with streams of consciousness and wordplay – is rich and challenging. Yet the energy and extravagance of the novel are exhilarating and the whole is profound, engrossing, and ultimately hugely rewarding. Nothing Like The Sun is one of Burgess’s most fully realised creative engagements with Shakespeare, an inspiration that continued to the end of his life.
Read more about Nothing Like The Sun in these articles by Victoria Brazier, exploring Burgess’s writing of the novel and his distinctive approach to his use of language within it
Burgess and Shakespeare
Burgess and Shakespeare:
elcome to Anthony Burgess and Shakespeare.
Throughout his career, Anthony Burgess was fascinated by the writing and life of William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s plays and poetry, and the story of his life, inspired Burgess to write novels, critical studies, a biography, a ballet, chamber music and a musical film. As a teacher, Burgess passed on his love of Elizabethan drama to his students through lectures and textbooks; and as a journalist, he celebrated Shakespeare’s language and his importance in our own time.
Explore these pages to find out about the influence of Shakespeare on Anthony Burgess, and the fresh interpretations Burgess brings to his work.
Listen to our podcasts on Anthony Burgess and Shakespeare (see below): we examine Burgess’s Shakespeare biography, his novel Nothing Like the Sun and his other imaginative fictional interpretations of the bard’s life, and hear some of Burgess’s Shakespeare music. as well as a newly-discovered series of Shakespeare lectures.
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The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcasts
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast is dedicated to exploring the life and work of Anthony Burgess and his contemporaries, and the cultural environment in which Burgess was working. A combination of scripted episodes, interviews and lectures, this series is a resource for students, readers and anyone else interested in twentieth century literature, film and music. The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast includes episodes on A Clockwork Orange and other novels written by Burgess, the influence of James Joyce, literary dystopias and utopias, and Burgess&#;s musical compositions among many other themes and topics.
A good place to start with The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast is our episode titled &#;Anthony Burgess for Beginners&#;. You can stream it below, or find it on your favourite podcast app.
The Ninety-Nine Novels Podcast
In , Anthony Burgess published his survey of twentieth century literature Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since . The book is a personal, and somewhat idiosyncratic, selection of B
Burgess and Shakespeare
Burgess&#;s Shakespeare biography:
hakespeare is Anthony Burgess’s speculative biography of the Bard. Burgess claims in his foreword ‘the right of every Shakespeare-lover who has ever lived to paint his own portrait of the man’, and he does this with characteristic colour and vigour.
Like every biographer of Shakespeare, Burgess is forced to rely on conjecture, due to the limited facts known about the playwright’s life. First published in , the book draws on Burgess’s thwarted attempts to write a film about Shakespeare’s life. Its lavish illustrations are matched by extravagant and sometimes fanciful descriptions of the Elizabethan age.
Stanley Wells identifies the interaction between the imagination of Burgess the contemporary novelist and Shakespeare the Elizabethan dramatist as being at the heart of this book. Shakespeare is perhaps at its most convincing in its treatment of the plays.
Burgess offers detailed commentaries on Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, and Richard III, writing in his didactic and inspiring teacherly manner. He is not shy of dismissing Love’s Labour&#;s Lost, King John and Pericles &#; which is said to
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