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Shakespeare / Bill Bryson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : William Collins, 2016Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Updated editionDescription: 200 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 000719790X
  • 9780007197903
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR2895 B79 2016
Summary: "Bestselling writer Bill Bryson's brilliantly readable biography of our greatest dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is updated to mark the 400th anniversary of his death. Examining centuries of myths, half truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson tries to make sense of the man behind the masterpieces. In a journey through the streets of Shakespeare's time, he brings to life the hubbub of Elizabethan England and a host of characters along the way. Bryson celebrates the glory of Shakespeare's language -- his ceaseless inventiveness gave us hundreds of now indispensible phrases, images and words -- and delights in details of his fall-outs and folios, poetry and plays. Stitching together information from a vast array of sources, he has created a unique celebration of one of the most significant, and least understood, figures in history -- not to mention a classic piece of Bryson." -- Back cover.
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PR2877 I45 2018 ILLUSTRATED TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE PR2877 .L7645 2022 More comedies and tragedies / PR2892 .P27 2001 Shakespeare's bawdy / PR2895 B79 2016 Shakespeare / PR2906 .G74 2007 Shakespeare's wife / PR2976 B37 2013 Shakespeare saved my life : ten years in solitary with the bard / PR2976 S43 2019 Shakespeare and the 99%.

Originally published: London: HarperPress, 2007.

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Includes bibliographical references.

"Bestselling writer Bill Bryson's brilliantly readable biography of our greatest dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is updated to mark the 400th anniversary of his death. Examining centuries of myths, half truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson tries to make sense of the man behind the masterpieces. In a journey through the streets of Shakespeare's time, he brings to life the hubbub of Elizabethan England and a host of characters along the way. Bryson celebrates the glory of Shakespeare's language -- his ceaseless inventiveness gave us hundreds of now indispensible phrases, images and words -- and delights in details of his fall-outs and folios, poetry and plays. Stitching together information from a vast array of sources, he has created a unique celebration of one of the most significant, and least understood, figures in history -- not to mention a classic piece of Bryson." -- Back cover.

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