Shakespeare: The World As Stage (Eminent Lives Series)

Bill Bryson?s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship?updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare?s death 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. 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.

Author: Bill Bryson

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Publication Date: Apr 26, 2016

Number of Pages: 224 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography

ISBN-10: 0062564625

ISBN-13: 9780062564627