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050 4 _aPR2895
_bB79 2016
100 1 _aBryson, Bill,
_d1951-,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aShakespeare /
_cBill Bryson.
250 _aUpdated edition.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bWilliam Collins,
_c2016.
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a200 pages ;
_c20 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published: London: HarperPress, 2007.
501 _aP.B
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _a"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.
600 1 4 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aDramatists, English
_yEarly modern, 1500-1700
_vBiography
_96782
650 7 _aDramatists, English
_xEarly modern
_xBiography
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