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Shakespeare the world as stage

Scant facts about the Bard's personal life make for fertile ground in imagining the Shakespeare of Elizabethan England. Bill Bryson manages to weave together a witty, albeit brief, narrative that explores topics from the accuracy of the few extant pictures to whether Shakespeare actually wrote all that has been attributed to him.

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  • "Scant facts about the Bard's personal life make for fertile ground in imagining the Shakespeare of Elizabethan England. Bill Bryson manages to weave together a witty, albeit brief, narrative that explores topics from the accuracy of the few extant pictures to whether Shakespeare actually wrote all that has been attributed to him."@en
  • "Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright."
  • "Bill Bryson embarks on a quest to discover the man behind the legend that is Shakespeare. From England to Washington, the journey for Shakespeare reveals many entertaining and lesser-known facts about the master playwright and poet. Through conversations with leading Shakespearian scholars and actors, Bryson celebrates the work and life of William Shakespeare."
  • "Bryson offers a portrait of the Bard, presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's birthplace, and academics. The account also shares the author's recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon."@en
  • "ABryson offers a portrait of the Bard, presenting in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's birthplace, and academics, as an account that also shares the author's recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon."@en
  • "Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions."
  • "Biografie van de Engelse toneelschrijver en dichter (1564-1616)."
  • "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, [the author] sorts through this ... muddle to reveal the man himself. [The author] documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He 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 an unrivaled gift for storytelling."
  • "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. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He 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 scepticism, and an unrivaled gift for storytelling.--From publisher description."

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  • "biografier"
  • "Biography"
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
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  • "Shakespeare the world as stage"@en
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  • "Shakespeare : The world as a stage"
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