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Shakespeare : The world as stage

Bryson, Bill.

Shakespeare : The world as stage - New York. Atlas Books/HarperCollins. 12/28/2012 - vii, 199 p. ; 22 cm. - Eminent lives. .

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 supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, reco

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.
Eminent lives.