red_lemon_diary 's review for:

Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

2.0

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2.5 stars. I'm sad to say this was, for the most part, very boring. I'm a fan of Bryson's other work but here he often gets bogged down in unnecessary detail that just becomes a tedious, academic slog by the end. I definitely know more about Shakespeare and the period than I did before, but if anything I've learnt basically we don't know much about the man, and probably never will for sure. There were probably more interesting ways to find that out though...sorry Bill.