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Jan 1, 2007 · This one is somewhat of a departure for Bill Bryson – ‘Shakespeare’ being a biography of sorts and Bryson being overwhelmingly and ostensibly a popular travel writer. Although the central premise here is that, as Bryson freely acknowledges indeed almost relishes, is that what we do know about the life of William Shakespeare is ...
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May 31, 2022 · 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. The prose is a well-crafted and playful presentation of the dozen-odd facts known about Shakespeare and many of the ...
Jul 24, 2021 · Goodreads. 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. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.
May 16, 2012 · I also just finished re-reading Shakespeare – The World as Stage by Bill Bryson. I’m much more used to seeing Bryson’s humorous accounts of his life and travels around England, Europe, Australia, and America, so I must admit that I was a tad dubious when I first saw that he’d written a book on Shakespeare. Now, I can drop Shakespearian ...
Dec 22, 2014 · Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare: The World as Stage is a short and well-researched biography on the famous Bard, with some background on Elizabethan England thrown in for good measure. I’ve been meaning to read something of Bryson’s for a long time and thought this might make a good introduction, especially since I did a lengthy project on ...
Nov 28, 2007 · By. PopMatters Staff. / 28 November 2007. In adding to the groaning pile of this year’s Bardlit, Bill Bryson at least offers two qualities William Shakespeare prized and that are in chronically ...
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Jan 11, 2008 · Shakespeare’s sexuality is a long, long way from being settled, though, and for Bryson to so breezily assert such a thing as a matter of fact is really beyond the pale. Asserting Shakespeare was gay in any sense that we would recognize the term is problematic, especially in light of Sonnet 20 (“A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand ...
