Shakespeare LP PUB198712 ISBN10: 0986270601

ISBN10: 0986270601

Through case studies and lively discussion

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Shakespeare LP PUB198712 ISBN10: 0986270601William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American