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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.
- Sales Rank: #925894 in Books
- Brand: Bryson, Bill/ Bryson, Bill (NRT)
- Published on: 2008-10-21
- Released on: 2008-10-21
- Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 5
- Dimensions: 5.80" h x .80" w x 5.30" l, .35 pounds
- Running time: 21600 seconds
- Binding: Audio CD
- 208 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Considering the hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about Shakespeare, relatively little is known about the man himself. In the absence of much documentation about his life, we have the plays and poetry he wrote. In this addition to the Eminent Lives series, bestselling author Bryson (The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid) does what he does best: marshaling the usual little facts that others might overlook—for example, that in Shakespeare's day perhaps 40% of women were pregnant when they got married—to paint a portrait of the world in which the Bard lived and prospered. Bryson's curiosity serves him well, as he delves into subjects as diverse as the reliability of the extant images of Shakespeare, a brief history of the theater in England and the continuing debates about whether William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really wrote Shakespeare's works. Bryson is a pleasant and funny guide to a subject at once overexposed and elusive—as Bryson puts it, he is a kind of literary equivalent of an electron—forever there and not there. (Nov.)
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From the Back Cover
Bill Bryson's Shakespeare pairs one of history's most celebrated writers with one of the most popular writers in the English language today. In this elegant, updated, illustrated edition, the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of one of the world's greatest poets are evoked through a series of full-color paintings, drawings, portraits, documents and photographs. Bryson also discusses the recent discoveries of the Cobbe portrait and the remains of Shakespeare's first theatre in Shoreditch.
The centuries of mysteries, half-truths and downright lies about Shakespeare are deftly explored, as Bryson draws a picture that includes many aspects of the poet's life, making sense of the man behind the masterpieces. In a journey down the streets of Shakespeare's time, Bryson brings to life the hubbub of Elizabethan England and delights in details of his folios and quartos, poetry and plays. He celebrates the glory of Shakespeare's language and his ceaseless inventiveness, which gave us hundreds of now indispensable phrases, images and words.
About the Author
Bill Bryson's bestselling books include One Summer, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home, A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here nor There, Made in America, and The Mother Tongue. He lives in England with his wife.
Bill Bryson's bestselling books include One Summer, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home, A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here nor There, Made in America, and The Mother Tongue. He lives in England with his wife.
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A Very Eminent Life
By Book Lover
What I like about Bill Bryson, besides his clear and witty writing style, is his curiosity and the fact that his questions are often the ones I would ask too. In this work he has turned his attention to The Bard, and his love for all things English shines through this too brief biography. We are treated to an overview of the history and culture of Shakespeare's world, along with insights into his contemporaries in writing. After reading Bryson's thorough explication of the authorship of the plays of Shakespeare, I will never again entertain the possibility that anyone but Will could have written them. We may not know much about the man, but what is available, Bryson has marshaled for a totally convincing argument in support of the genius of William Shakespeare. I may even revisit some of those plays I should have paid more attention to in school.
287 of 294 people found the following review helpful.
The whole idea is that we don't know much about Shakespeare... but Bryson turns that into quite a bit.
By M. Strong
A tough assignment; write a book on a topic about which we know almost nothing, the life of William Shakespeare. Better yet, make the book about the fact that we know very little about the life of William Shakespeare. Let that book compete with thousands of others about Shakespeare. Doesn't sound like a recipe for a successful book, but Bryson has truly pulled it off.
Here's how.
First off, Bryson doesn't shy away from the fact that we know very little about Shakespeare, instead, he uses it to his advantage. After laying out the facts we do have about Shakespeare, Bryson turns to a description of the world in which Shakespeare lived to explain why we know so little about the man. He really brings 17th century England to life and paints a picture in which you can imagine Shakespeare operating. It's really well done and ends up being fascinating.
Second, Bryson addresses the speculation that has risen up around Shakespeare's life to fill the void of knowledge that we face. Using the information we do have about Shakespeare and the times in which he lived, he categorizes the various Shakespeare theories into more fanciful and less fanciful piles and explains why they belong there. It makes for really interesting reading.
My familiarity with and interest in Shakespeare are average to below average, and yet I found this book to be fascinating, readable and informative. It's made me more interested in Shakespeare.
Highly recommended even for those who aren't deeply interested in Shakespeare.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Yes! Shakespeare Really Did Write Shakespeare!
By Happy Reader
Bryson ends Chapter 1 with a simple statement: "The idea [of this book] is a simple one: to see how much of Shakespeare we can know, really know, from the record.
Which is one reason, of course, [that the book is] so slender."
It is amazing how Shakespeare can be a household name 400 years after he died, and yet we know few facts about him. If it hadn't been for his compatriots publishing "The First Folio" posthumously, he would have been long forgotten. Actually, as Bryson points out, he almost was forgotten anyway for the first 200 years after he died.
But thanks to the restoration of his reputation, and he had a good professional name while he was alive, people now comb his plays & poems and the public records for every meaning and every mention.
Bryson's explanation of how pronunciation has changed from Shakespeare's day is very interesting: "Much of the language Shakespeare used is lost to us now without external guidance. In and experiment in 2005, the Globe in London staged a production of 'Troilus and Cressida' in 'Early Modern English' or "Original Pronunciation'. The critic John Lahr, writing in the 'New Yorker', estimated that he could understand only about 30 percent of what was said." This is from someone who had watched a lot of Shakespeare.
I enjoyed the whole book, but the very best part is the last chapter, Chapter 9: Claimants. This covers the controversy over whether Shakespeare actually wrote Shakespeare, and in a commonsensical way debunks the claimants. I've always thought it was silly to say that Shakespeare couldn't have written "Macbeth" because he wasn't a lord or didn't go to college. He was the son of a mayor and could read and write. Why couldn't the spark of genius have shown itself?
If you want to read more, I highly recommend "The Book of William". This slim book not about the man but about the First Folio. I never would have thought there was that much to know about it. It's fascinating and humorous:
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
Happy Reader
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