THE IMAGE OF SHAKESPEARE IN THE BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL

Abstract

The earliest biographical works in medieval England were written in Latin and were mainly devoted to the lives of saints and martyrs who fought for their religion and profession. As a rule, there was great personal interest in such works, which praised these individuals excessively and described their lives. Biographical works are called hagiography. This term (hagiography) is now very often used to judge uncritical or uncritical biography.

In 20th-century English literature, Peter Ackroyd left his mark on the history of artistic thought of the last period as the author of biographical works. A number of research scholars rightly say that the works of the thinker English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616) are his “best biography”. However, although William Shakespeare did not write a comprehensive biography in his poems and plays, his creative examples open up opportunities to study the explanation of some issues related to the biography of the poet and playwright. In this regard, the work “Shakespeare: A Biography” by Peter Ackroyd, published by the publishing house “Vintage books”, is of great interest