Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Biographies
  3. Literary biographies

Read and listen for free for 42 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
3.7(3)

William Shakespeare: History in an Hour

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.

In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human thought, literature and language in English. His poetry and plays have endured for almost 450 years, such is their universal appeal and understanding of the human condition. And yet Shakespeare wrote almost nothing of himself. Who was this socially ambitious wordsmith who had neither pedigree nor university education? What was his family life like? How did he work?

Shakespeare: History in an Hour is the essential guide to the life of Shakespeare, his relationships, colleagues and his breathtaking works. From the Elizabethan world to which he was born, to the theorists and critics that continue to debate him to this day, this is the story of the most revered writer of all time.

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…


Author:

  • Sinead Fitzgibbon

Narrator:

  • Jonathan Keeble

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 1 h 32 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Biographies
  • Literary biographies

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies : How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    Elizabeth Winkler

    audiobookbook
  2. Hitmen

    Scott M. Deitche

    audiobook
  3. Stalking Shakespeare : A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

    Lee Durkee

    audiobook
  4. The Princess Spy : The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones

    Larry Loftis

    audiobookbook
  5. Society's Queen

    Anne Courcy

    audiobook
  6. Ian Fleming : The Complete Man

    Nicholas Shakespeare

    audiobook
  7. Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Spy Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Woman

    Larry Loftis

    audiobookbook
  8. The Real Queen Charlotte

    Catherine Curzon

    audiobook
  9. The Lodger Shakespeare

    Charles Nicholl

    audiobook
  10. 101 Amazing Facts about William Shakespeare (Unabbreviated)

    Jack Goldstein

    audiobook
  11. All Blood Runs Red : The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy

    Tom Clavin, Phil Keith

    audiobook
  12. A Forgotten Hero

    Shelley Emling

    audiobook

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5