![]() ![]() Bryson is a pleasant and funny guide to a subject at once overexposed and elusive-as Bryson puts it, “he is a kind of literary equivalent of an electron-forever there and not there.” (Nov. ![]() Bryson's curiosity serves him well, as he delves into subjects as diverse as the reliability of the extant images of Shakespeare, a brief history of the theater in England and the continuing debates about whether William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really wrote Shakespeare's works. ) does what he does best: marshaling the usual little facts that others might overlook-for example, that in Shakespeare's day perhaps 40% of women were pregnant when they got married-to paint a portrait of the world in which the Bard lived and prospered. ![]() Summary: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English. In this addition to the Eminent Lives series, bestselling author Bryson ( The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Front cover image for Shakespeare : the world as stage. In the absence of much documentation about his life, we have the plays and poetry he wrote. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Considering the hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about Shakespeare, relatively little is known about the man himself. William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. ![]()
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