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Bill Bryson
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Shakespeare: The World as a Stage |
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English |
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Paperback |
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222 |
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2016-03-24 |
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000719790X |
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Harper |
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0.44 pounds |
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0.56 x 7.8 x 5.08 inches |
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From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet.Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson makes sense of the man behind the masterpieces. As he leads us through the crowded streets of Elizabethan England, he brings to life the places and characters that inspired Shakespeare's work. Along the way he delights in the inventiveness of Shakespeare's language, which has given us so many of the indispensable words and phrases we use today, and celebrates the Bard's legacy to our literature, culture and history.Drawing together information from a vast array of sources, this is a masterful account of the life and works of William Shakespeare, one of the most famous and most enigmatic people ever to have lived - not to mention a classic piece of Bill Bryson.
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Dafni (Israel) (2010/04/09):
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 he ceaseless inventiveness gave us hundreds of now indispesable phrases, images and words - and delights in details of his fall-outs and folios, poetry and plays.
Hazel Clapham (United Kingdom) (2019/02/12):
A really readable and entertaining layman's guide to everything that is known about the Bard.
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