Shakespeare: The World As A Stage: Bill Bryson

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How was his marriage to Anne Hathaway? We have no idea – we don't even know that "Anne" was her name; her father's will refers to her as Agnes. I never knew that. Seeing Further – The Story of Science and the Royal Society". The Royal Society. 28 January 2010 . Retrieved 5 December 2022. Bill Bryson stepping down as Chancellor". Durham University. 20 September 2010 . Retrieved 4 July 2011. Its mission and content is to tell us about Shakespeare, yet it tells us in exhaustive and repetitive detail that almost nothing is or can be known about the man ("a wealth of text but poverty of context").

The members of Shakespeare's company owned the Globe among them.....The Globe is sometimes referred to as 'a theatre built by actors for actors', and there is of course a good deal in that. (It) had a distinction in that it was designed exclusively for theatrical productions, and took no earnings from other entertainments. In the work he cites scholars such as Stephen Greenblatt, Frank Kermode, Edmond Malone, Samuel Schoenbaum, Caroline Spurgeon and Charles William Wallace. I call myself a Shakespeare geek, and probably shouldn't; for me it refers to my deep affection and fascination for the man and his work – thirst for knowledge, not necessarily possession of knowledge. I know more than the average bear, but not enough to truly qualify me as a geek. For example, I had no idea that Will's brother Edmund was an actor (and died at only 27 in the same year as their mother, both of unknown causes). I also didn't know Walt Whitman was a rabid anti-Stratfordian (which Bryson doesn't mention, but which I discovered in related reading.) I do know enough not to trust any single source – not even Bill Bryson …While we often know a good deal about performers in male roles from Shakespeare's day, we know almost nothing about the conduct of the female parts.... We don't even know much about them in general terms, including how old they were... urn:lcp:shakespeareworld00bill:lcpdf:116331f0-b740-4840-9c9f-3e51bc2a6d08 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier shakespeareworld00bill Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4mk98m3k Invoice 11 Isbn 9780061673696 The short answer to this is not much. We don’t know, for instance, exactly when he was born or how to spell his name or whether he ever left England or who his best friends were. “His sexuality,” Mr. Bryson deduces, “is an irreconcilable mystery.”

General admission for groundlings - those who stood in the open around the stage - was a penny. Those who wished to sit paid a penny more, and those who desired a cushion paid another penny on top of that - all this at a time when a day's wage was one shilling (12 pence) or less. The money was dropped in a box, which was taken to a special room for safekeeping - the box office.

Mi entrañable Bryson no viene aquí a descubrir la pólvora con esta breve y concisa obra. Simple y llanamente expone lo poco que se sabe, dando referencias. De lo que no se sabe o se especula, el autor nos explica porqué no hay que creerse prácticamente nada. Y donde lo borda (y donde me lo he pasado mejor), es en las descripciones que hace de la época. Especialmente del Londres que vio nacer al Globe y sus teatros comtemporáneos. De cómo se (mal)vivía. De las recurrentes epidemias de peste que tuvieron que padecer, con la consiguiente reducción de población. Y, sin embargo, ricos y pobres tenían algo en común. Algo que disfrutaban, aunque muchos ni comprendieran: asistir al gran espectáculo del teatro. Bil Brajson i ja nismo kliknuli na prvu, pa ni na drugu knjigu. Ovo je moj treći susret sa njim, ali isključivo zbog teme. Naime, odlučila sam da mu dam šansu budući da sam pisala jedan stručni rad u okviru kojeg sam i sprovela jedno skromno empirijsko istraživanje o relevantnosti Šekspirovih drama za savremenu pozorišnu umjetnost i ovom prilikom želim da zahvalim svima vama koji ste popunili anketu i dali vaš doprinos ovom istraživanju. E sad, što se tiče samog Brajsona, mislim da će naše druženje ovdje završiti osim eventualno ako ne napiše recimo biografiju Selindžera ili Fantea ili nešto slično. :) Ima nešto u njegovom načinu pisanja što mi se ne sviđa, nisam sigurna šta, možda neka prevelika samouvjerenost i izvjesna nadobudnost koje provejavaju sa svake stranice. Svejedno, ovdje je bilo mnogo prijatnih iznenađenje gdje je djelimično i uspio da suspregne svoje stavove i da i mnogo kvalitetnih objektivnih zapažanja o Šekspirovom stvaralaštvu. Ipak, ovdje dominira ozbiljan istraživački rad koji je Brajson sproveo ispisujući tako jednu nepretencioznu, istinitu i nadahnutu biografiju najvećeg engleskog dramskog pisca svih vremena. S druge strane, Brajson ne piše suvoparnim dokumentarističkim, akademskim i naučnim jezikom nego zadržava svoj šmekerski izraz i svoj specifičan humor koji, možda, nekima neće odgovarati. Djelo je prožeto i mnogim zanimljivostima i anegdotama iz Šekspirovog vremena koje, sigurna sam, mnogi od nas, uključujući i nas koji smo izučavali Šekspira, najvjerovatnije, nismo imali priliku čuti kao dio nekog opšteg znanja i kulture i time ovo djelo ima svoj značaj. Sve u svemu, pitko i kvalitetno. The golden age of theatre lasted only about the length of a good human lifetime, but what a wonderously prolific and successful period it was. Between the opening of the Red Lion in 1567 and the closing of all the theatres by the Puritans seventy-five years later, London's playhouses are thought to have attracted fifty million paying customers, something like ten times the entire country's population in Shakespeare's day. I have appreciated the passages described by the Elizabethan theatres, edifices different from other theatres. There are no traces left, apart from one or two rough drafts of drawings. It's fascinating. The theatrical activity was enormous at the time, which involved competition between the different rooms. For example, Shakespeare played comedy while writing plays.

I've never bothered reading much about Shakespeare's life - I have always thought I should, but never seemed to get around to it.Even the few surviving portraits that are purportedly of Shakespeare cannot be verified. "The paradoxical consequence is that 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."