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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other editionsShakespeare: The World as Stage
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 academics to eccentrics. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunker-like 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, 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 a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time. Synopsis:"New York Times" bestselling author Bryson explores the life and works of William Shakespeare and offers humorous reflections of his own adventures in Stratford-on-Avon. About the AuthorBill Bryson, bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, and In a Sunburned Country, received the Aventis Prize in 2004 for A ShortHistory of Nearly Everything. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he now lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife and children. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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