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William Shakespeare: The World as Stage
by Bill Bryson
Bryson does a great job of explaining how little the world knows of Shakespeare, and really, of anyone who was not a royal in the Elizabethan/Jacobean age.
He also explains what the world does know, and how it knows it, and backs up each claim.
I think my favorite thing I've learned in a month is that in the first edition of the First Folio, in the middle of Much Ado About Nothing, the characters' names Dogberry and Verges in a scene are replaced with the actors' names Will and Richard (not Shakespeare, but Kempe, probably, and not Burbage, but Crowley, probably).
He also explains what the world does know, and how it knows it, and backs up each claim.
I think my favorite thing I've learned in a month is that in the first edition of the First Folio, in the middle of Much Ado About Nothing, the characters' names Dogberry and Verges in a scene are replaced with the actors' names Will and Richard (not Shakespeare, but Kempe, probably, and not Burbage, but Crowley, probably).