After tackling the subject of, well, everything, Bill Bryson will be back this fall with a book on a seemingly simpler subject: William Shakespeare. But it's not as easy a topic as you might think. Scholars know surprisingly little about the bard.Bryson writes, "We don’t know exactly how many plays he wrote or in what order he wrote them. ... we have just 14 words in his own hand... we have no written description of him penned in his own lifetime... we are not sure how best to spell his name."
Shakespeare: The World as Stage will be published November 1. Meanwhile, you can read an excerpt here.--David E
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