![]() ![]() Tags: Literature, Review, shakespeare, shakespeare the world as stage, William Shakespeare. 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. This short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the authors inimitable wit and intelligence. In summary, Bryson is an endlessly entertaining writer, and Shakespeare: The World as Stage is an outstanding read for anyone who enjoys Shakespearean theater, good writing, or both. 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. In this addition to the Eminent Lives series, bestselling author Bryson ( The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid In the absence of much documentation about his life, we have the plays and poetry he wrote. ![]() Considering the hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about Shakespeare, relatively little is known about the man himself. ![]()
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