Shakespeare: The World As A Stage: Bill Bryson

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We don't know if he ever left England. We don't know who his principal companions were or how he amused himself. His sexuality is an irreconcilable mystery. On only a handful of days in his life can we say with absolute certainty where he was. We have no record at all of his whereabouts for the eight critical years when he left his wife and three young children in Stratford and became, with almost impossible swiftness, a successful playwright in London. By the time he is mentioned in print as a playwright, in 1592, his life was already more than half over. we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.” Bill Bryson Library renaming event, Tuesday 27 November 2012". Durham University. 22 November 2012. It reads like a lighthearted text book for teenagers/high school - except that it has no index (a cardinal sin for any non-fiction book).

Most all Shakespeare biographers go off into pure speculation after that – but Bill Bryson instead explores his world, his work, and contemporary scholarship and weaves it all together into a still rather short book. But I’ve said that already.Bill Bryson - Honorary Degree". University of Leicester. 24 June 2009. Archived from the original on 10 November 2021 – via YouTube.

In breve, e come sempre, in Shakespeare un lettore attento può trovare sostegno per quasi qualsiasi posizione voglia prendere. (O come lo stesso Shakespeare ha scritto in una battuta citata spesso a sproposito: «Il diavolo può citare le Sacre Scritture per i propri fini».)” Author Bill Bryson Takes Agent to Court". Courthouse News Service. Pasadena, California. 4 December 2012. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013 . Retrieved 31 January 2020. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) Shakespeare appears to have remained an actor throughout his professional life (unlike Ben Johnson who quit as soon as he could afford to).... It can't have been easy...but it would doubtless have allowed him (assuming he wished it) much greater control than had he simply surrendered a script to others, as most playrights did. According to tradition Shakespeare specialized in good but fairly undemanding roles in his own plays. The ghost in Hamlet is the part to which he is most often linked.He coined - or, to be more carefully precise, made the first recorded use of - 2,035 words, and interestingly he indulged the practice from the very outset of his career. Titus Andronicus and Love's Labour's Lost, two of his earliest works, have 140 new words between them..... In plays written during his most productive and inventive period - Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear neologisms occur at the fairly astonishing rate of one ever two and a half lines. Hamlet alone gave audiences six hundred words that, according to all other evidence,they had never heard before. Pignataro, Juliana Rose (3 October 2019). "21 Books to Curl Up With This Fall". Newsweek . Retrieved 31 January 2020. a b Crace, John (15 November 2005). "Bill Bryson: The accidental chancellor". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 10 February 2008 . Retrieved 26 April 2010. Bryson also wrote two popular works on the history of the English language, The Mother Tongue and Made in America—and, more recently, an update of his guide to usage, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (first published as The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words in 1983).