Being Burgess, he also plays around with language, using – not very successfully in my opinion – his idea of Shakespearean language throughout the book.Urgess taught English literature – and especially Shakespeare – in many contexts and over many years.īetween 19, Burgess taught at Brinsford Lodge near Wolverhampton at the Bamber Bridge Emergency Teacher Training College Banbury Grammar School at Malay College, Kuala Kangsar the Malay Teacher Training College in Kota Bharu and the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin College in Brunei. However, he does offer glimpses of the how and why of various scenes and characters of the plays and poems as well as contemporary reactions. Eventually he buys New Place, one of the most sumptuous houses in Stratford, but stays in London for some time to come.īurgess is primarily concerned with Shakespeare the man and his lusty life, as the cover of my copy of the book so aptly puts it. Much of his time is spent chasing other women including, in particular, the woman he is particularly attached to (called Fatimah in this book), clearly meant to be the unidentified Dark Lady of the Sonnets, whom Burgess mocks and who gives Shakespeare syphilis (also unproven). When he is called back when his son, Hamnet, is dying, he hesitates and then arrives back too late. Though they have three children (two twins), they seem to spend little time together as Shakespeare goes off to London on his own, leaving his wife and children behind. He starts off with a fling with a local lass but then marries Anne Hathaway when she is pregnant. We follow his adventures from being an apprentice glove-maker through his literary success to his death. His is Burgess’ homage to Shakespeare, portraying Shakespeare as a likely lad, interested as much in wenching and boozing as writing his plays and poetry. Home » England » Anthony Burgess » Nothing like the Sun Anthony Burgess: Nothing like the Sun
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