A review by kryptowright1984
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

3.0

Bill Bryson is fun for his color, if nothing else. This was a quick read, more intended for fans of Shakespeare than people who have completed coursework on the playwright. So in that way, I was prepped to like it a little less, since some of its fact were repeats for me.

But all in all, this book takes us on a quirky journey through what may have been Bill's life. The best chapters concern Bryson's ode to the man's genius at creating words and Bryson's jotting off the many eccentric Shakespeare scholars who have defined modern approaches to his work.