There are not too many writers who can turn Shakespeare's life into light reading, but Bryson manages to do just that. With his usual wit and unique perspective, Bryson distills massive volumes encompassing speculation and conjecture about Shakespeare biography produced over the last hundred years, and delivers a wonderfully lucid and lighthearted romp through Shakespeare's life and times.
From Shakespeare's birth, to his marriage, to speculations on a possible tendency to wayward sexuality, Bryson cuts through all the academic posing and supposing and delivers the few actually documented facts about Shakespeare's life, the political goings on during the late days of Elizabeth the First's reign, and the culture of theatre life in general.
A wonderful read.
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