Description
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.
Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a basement room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed.
Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness. His Shakespeare is like no one else's-the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivalled in our time.
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 11/13/2007
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.32w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780061363917
ISBN10: 006136391X
Large Print
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
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