Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000XSAXXI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 578 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal 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. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.
"A Very Eminent Life" according to Book Lover. What I like about Bill Bryson, besides his clear and witty writing style, is his curiosity and the fact that his questions are often the ones I would ask too. In this work he has turned his attention to The Bard, and his love for all things English shines through this too brief biography. We are treated to an overview of the history and culture of Shakespeare's world, along with insights into his contemporaries in writing. After reading Bryson's. History book for those that get bored with history books To read Bill Bryson is to like Bill Bryson, but this is not his usual tongue-in-cheek book. For me, this was just the right book because I didn't want to read an overly-intellectualized work where it's so dry it almost spontaneously combusts while you're reading it. Bryson covers all the major questions surrounding Shakespeare including his early history, his works, his questionable personal life, multiple authorship questions, and much more. It. Happy Reader said Yes! Shakespeare Really Did Write Shakespeare!. Bryson ends Chapter 1 with a simple statement: "The idea [of this book] is a simple one: to see how much of Shakespeare we can know, really know, from the record.Which is one reason, of course, [that the book is] so slender."It is amazing how Shakespeare can be a household name Yes! Shakespeare Really Did Write Shakespeare! Happy Reader Bryson ends Chapter 1 with a simple statement: "The idea [of this book] is a simple one: to see how much of Shakespeare we can know, really know, from the record.Which is one reason, of course, [that the book is] so slender."It is amazing how Shakespeare can be a household name 400 years after he died, and yet we know few facts about him. If it hadn't been for his compatriots publishing "The First Folio" posthumously, he would have been long for. 00 years after he died, and yet we know few facts about him. If it hadn't been for his compatriots publishing "The First Folio" posthumously, he would have been long for
. Bill Bryson is the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, The Lost Continent, The Mother Tongue, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, Notes from a Small Island, Notes from a Big Country, Down Under, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Shakespeare: The World as Stage, At Home, and A Short History of Nearly Everything, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, won the Aventis Prize for Science Books, and was
(Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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. From Publishers Weekly Considering the hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about Shakespeare, relatively little is known about the man himself. In this addition to the Eminent Lives series, bestselling author Bryson (The Life and Times of th