Shakespeare: the World As Stage

Marc Notes: Larger print.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-245).; 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. Publisher Marketing: 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. Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 49 (EAN 9780061673696, Paperback) - *Starred Review Library Journal 02/01/2008 pg. 105 (EAN 9780061363511, Compact Disc) Booklist 10/15/2007 pg. 21 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2007 pg. 58 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 840 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 1015 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 09/03/2007 pg. 47 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2008 pg. 63 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 601 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2007 pg. 762 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 257 (EAN 9780060740221, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Bryson, Bill Bill Bryson is the bestselling author of At Home, A Walk in the Woods, The Lost Continent, Made in America, The Mother Tongue, and A Short History of Nearly Everything, winner of the Aventis Prize. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Bryson lives in England with his wife and children.