Shakespeare : the world as stage

Shakespeare : the world as stage

Author: 
Bryson, Bill.
Place: 
New York
Publisher: 
Atlas Books/HarperCollins
Phys descriptions: 
vii, 199P.
Date published: 
2007
Record type: 
Edition: 
1st ed.
ISBN: 
9780060740221
Call No: 
822.3 FOR
Abstract: 

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, records episodes in his own research. He celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's--the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and an unrivaled gift for storytelling.--From publisher description.

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CITATION: Bryson, Bill.. Shakespeare : the world as stage . New York : Atlas Books/HarperCollins , 2007. - Available at: https://library.au.int/shakespeare-world-stage