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spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Where there’s a Will . . .
Shakespeare may be the man of the previous millennium, but he is doing pretty well in the current one, too. Always at the heart of literary academia (inspiring around 4,000 books, monographs and other published studies each year), he has of late reca ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010
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What we really know about Shakespeare
Bill Bryson has written this (by comparison) very thin book about William Shakespeare. The book is thin because he has focused on the things that we REALLY know about the bard. Which happens to be: not much. It's nice to know that all these big tomes by other authors about Shakespeare are made up of ... (continue)
Linda Wilke said on Aug 27, 2008 | Add your feedback
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This thin book when compared with the flimsy facts that we know about Shakespeare is already great work. I started reading this book knowing very little about Shakespeare and finished reading it knowing barely a little bit more. However, everything about the historical backdrop is certainly very g ... (continue)
Wing Wong said on May 11, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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The book contains some really interesting points. However, having read this book after Marchette Chute's "Shakespeare of London" , I found that most of the things treated here were developed too coincisely. To those who don't know much about Shakespeare this can be a good introductory book, but if ... (continue)
Lilyofthevalleys2000 said on Sep 8, 2010 | Add your feedback
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Marco Piva said on Feb 17, 2010 | Add your feedback
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pyridine said on Feb 12, 2010 | Add your feedback
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Shakespeare is as intriguing a character as the ones he portrays in his plays. No wonder an inquisitive and curious writer as Bill Bryson has decided to look into the mysteries of his life and has come up with a brilliant and intelligent summary of the enormous variety of the writings about the Bard ... (continue)
Anmar08 said on Aug 16, 2009 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 200 Pages
- ISBN-10: 000719790X
- ISBN-13: 9780007197903
- Publisher: HarperPerennial
- Pub date: Apr 01, 2008
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Where there’s a Will . . .
Shakespeare may be the man of the previous millennium, but he is doing pretty well in the current one, too. Always at the heart of literary academia (inspiring around 4,000 books, monographs and other published studies each year), he has of late reca ... (read full critics)