Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

Bill Bryson

199 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced

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At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series. The author of 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' isn't, after all, a Shakespeare scholar, a playwright, or even a biographer. Reading 'Sh...

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