Shakespeare : the world as stage
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 supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's--the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and an unrivaled gift for storytelling.--From publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2007
Atlas Books/HarperCollins, New York, ©2007
Biography
vii, 199 pages ; 22 cm.
9780060740221, 9780061673696, 0060740221, 0061673692
136782567
In search of William Shakespeare
The early years, 1564-1585
The lost years, 1585-1592
In London
The plays
Years of fame, 1596-1603
The reign of King James, 1603-1616
Death
Claimants
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