Shakespeare: The World as Stage

 Today’s post is from Cathe at Davis Library:

Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

The always amusing Bill Bryson assumes that his readers will be familiar with Shakespeare’s life and writings, and so provides a quick, lively summary of all that we can never know for sure about the greatest writer in the English language. “We hardly know what [Shakespeare] was as a person,” Bryson comments. “He is a kind of literary equivalent of an electron–forever there and not there.” This brief entry in the Eminent Lives series is witty and entertaining, not at all stuffy or academic, and a real pleasure to read!