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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
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Acknowledging the lack of evidence needed to create an effective biography, Bryson instead opts to create a contextual biography showing life throughout Shakespeare's period. Bryson also effectively and thoroughly demolishes any alternative authorship question. Bryson, as always, produces a charming read.
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A fun jaunt through Shakespearean scholarship that I read almost entirely on my flight back from London to the Middle East (Luckily my 4 year old cooperated fairly well) It is a bit repetitive here with simplification forced by the limited set length of this series (he was writing for inclusion in a series of biographies), and there with a couple typos, but it was still the perfect thing to bring home from our visit to Shakespeare's Globe in London.
Bill Bryson repeatedly claims that his predecessors are fools and no one can write irrefutably about Shakespeare. Then he keeps it going with chapter after chapter of his own irrefutable knowledge.
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Easy/quick read, but not too much I didn’t already know.