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| Original Title: | Shakespeare: The World as Stage |
| ISBN: | 0060740221 (ISBN13: 9780060740221) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Eminent Lives |
| Characters: | William Shakespeare |
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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 this eclectic Iowan is exactly the type of person the Bard himself would have selected for the task.
The man who gave us 'The Mother Tongue' and 'A Walk in the Woods' approaches Shakespeare with the same freedom of spirit and curiosity that made those books such reader favorites. A refreshing take on an elusive literary master.
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| Title | : | Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) |
| Author | : | Bill Bryson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Eminent Lives |
| Pages | : | Pages: 199 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2007 by HarperCollinsPublishing |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. History. Audiobook |
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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)No matter where on the planet you're from, it seems that there is at least one figure from the early Renaissance period (1400-1600 AD) who's had a huge and profound impact on your society's culture ever since: here in the English-speaking world, for example, that would be playwright and poet WilliamShakespeare's biography is sketchy, and ever thus it shall remain. This little book represents Bill Bryson's attempt to collect what scant information exists, and to debunk a few spurious claims. I can't say I know much more about Sweet Will now than I did before reading the book, but Bryson is not to blame. People didn't reliably keep records 400 years ago. There were no standardized spellings for English words, so a lot of what was written down is indecipherable. Furthermore, no one
The Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare, authenticatedas a true likeness by Ben Johnson.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~When I worked as a secretary on a tabloid newspaper, many years ago, journalists writing stories based only only a few facts would say they were 'cooking with gas'. This is a cheerful and entertaining read where Bryson is doing just that - so little is known about Shakespeare's life. Yet I think he does a great job. He talks about Tudor England - and the general
This audiobook was a perfect companion for a long road trip. Bill Bryson, who has now written books on everything from the history of the universe to the origins of our domesticity to America in the 1920s and, perhaps most endearingly, stories of his various travels around the world, here turns his attention to William Shakespeare. In this relatively slim volume (it's less than 200 pages), Bryson researched what few facts are known about Shakespeare and synthesized them into chapters on his
Only one man had the circumstances and gifts to give us such incomparable works, and William Shakespeare of Stratford was unquestionably that man- whoever he was.
I had no idea we knew so little about William Shakespeare, where later in the book Bryson says there are a variety of ways his name was spelt back then, two were: Shappere and Shaxberd. Bryson plays detective after explaining that this is not his field and he is sharing his finds of what he discovers by talking to a lot of experts. The book starts off with anecdotes, one is from late 1900s of an American couple, Charles and Hulda Wallace, who housed themselves at Londons National Archives to
At the outset - if you are looking for a scholarly tome on the life and times of William Shakespeare, you are going to be disappointed. Bill Bryson simply doesn't write like that. Those of you who are familiar with his oeuvre would know that he is a "love-him-or-hate-him" author: people either love his snarky humour, or hate it with passion. And there are merits to both viewpoints.I am not a big fan of Bryson's travelogues - too sarcastic for my taste, and I don't like his humour which sometimes
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