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  1. Jan 1, 2007 · 3.81. 46,088 ratings3,721 reviews. At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series. The author of 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' isn't, after all, a Shakespeare scholar, a playwright, or even a biographer. Reading 'Shakespeare The World As Stage', however, one gets the sense that ...

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  2. May 31, 2022 · By Clark B. Timmins. May 31, 2022. No comments. Shakespeare: The World as Stage. Author: Bill Bryson. Genre: Literature. Publisher: Atlas Books. Pub date: 2007. pp: 199. B ill Bryson’s concise biography of William Shakespeare is brilliantly written, humorously insightful, and entirely delightful.

  3. By William Shakespeare. (from As You Like It, spoken by Jaques) All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;

  4. Jun 4, 2013 · English. vii, 199 pages ; 21 cm. 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.

  5. The focus of the book is to state what little is known conclusively about Shakespeare, and how this information is known, with some discussion of disproved theories, myths, and that which is believed by the public but not provable. It also explores the political, social, cultural and economic background to Shakespeare's work.

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  8. Apr 26, 2016 · Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with...

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