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Bill Bryson's Shakespeare pairs one of history's most celebrated writers with one of the very most popular writers in the English language today. Within this elegant, updated, illustrated edition, the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life span of 1 of the world's greatest poets are evoked through a series of full-color paintings, drawings, portraits, documents and photographs. Bryson also discusses the recent discoveries of the Cobbe portrait and the remains of Shakespeare's first theatre in Shoreditch. The centuries of mysteries, half-truths and downright lies about Shakespeare are deftly explored, as Bryson draws an image that includes many areas of the poet's life, making sense of the person behind the masterpieces. Within a journey down the streets of Shakespeare's time, Bryson brings alive the hubbub of Elizabethan England and delights in details of his folios and quartos, poetry and plays. He celebrates the glory of Shakespeare's language and his ceaseless inventiveness, which gave us a huge selection of now indispensable phrases, images and words.

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