Shaksper, Shakespeare, Shekspir: A Novel About How Masterpieces Were Born

6 hrs. 57 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Mark Berkolayko

Narrator Vyacheslav Kirik

Description

“Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet,” “Othello” and “King Lear,” “The Winter’s Tale” and “The Tempest,” and many, many other famous plays… But still—who is the author of the brilliant tragedies and stirring dramas that have drawn the attention of audiences and readers for more than four centuries? A rather unnoticed actor, Will Shaksp(er)e, born in Stratford-upon-Avon, who spent almost his entire life in London, but in 1612 returned to his hometown and died there on April 23, 1616?

Or was it someone writing under the pseudonym Shakespeare—a high-born and highly educated person? (The ranks of “dramatists” included Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, the Earl of Southampton, Mary Herbert Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke, the Earl of Rutland and his wife Elizabeth—and this is far from a complete list.)

In a new book by Mark Berkolayko, the mystery of authorship has been touched—by chance—by a young scholar from the 22nd century, who, using a device that captures sounds from the distant past, hears how masterpieces were created.