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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
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I loved Bryson's approach - especially his discussions on Shakespeare's language. It was an easy listen, read by the author, and I loved his attention to why the Shakespeare-was-the-author deniers are wrong. It was a joy.
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Very convincing that the man was the man. Missed Bryson's humor.
Seemed like a good person to brush up on, and Bill Bryson was the perfect guide to what is and (mostly) isn't known about Shakespeare.
A quick and interesting read. Not as humorous as Bryson's other work, although it has its moments.
If this was a book about Elizabethan theatre or the world that Shakespeare lived in, it did its job. BUT, as a book supposably a biography of Shakespeare's life, it did not. The conclusion I got from this was that there is nothing to know about Shakespeare. There is no evidence about a lot of his life. I was really hoping for an actual biography about his family, his inspirations, his feelings, but that is not what I got. This is not Bryson's fault however. I simply just felt this book a bit meh.
This was an easy yet informative read. Bryson does an excellent job presenting the facts and give a fair amount to consideration to each of the many speculations about Shakespeare's life. He is merciful on the reader by being brief but efficient in his points and explanations. It certainly a book I will see myself going to for reference from time to time.
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Bryson's writing is as delightful as always. Worth the price admission for his thorough excoriation of anti-Stratfordian notions, his insightful commentary on the classist nature of those notions, and his assertion that Shakespeare was a person, like the rest of us, situated in space and time who is correctly ascribed with an almost singular genius
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Learned more about what I didn’t know about Shakespeare than I learned about Shakespeare