William 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. 'Bill Bryson offers us a brisk summary of all the things we'd like to know, but don't.enough to be absorbed in an entertaining evening.' Daily Mail From the Back Cover: ‘Bryson uses an inimitably light touch and squeezes a vast subject down to manageable proportions.he is a warm and funny guide through the whole complicated morass of Shakespearean scholarship.’ Financial Times ‘Measured, sensible and, at times, as wryly humorous as you'd expect.’ Times ‘Bill Bryson has always been able to spot a market and there ought to be a market for his latest book.an accessible, sensible Life of Shakespeare.surely a fine gift for someone encountering Shakespeare for the first time.Bryson is shrewd.and as funny as you'd expect.he sets down all the important bits of evidence, and assesses them in a measured scholarly way. 'Bill Bryson jogs along in his own ineffable way, good–humoured, undoctrinaire, nodding respectfully at experts but confidently following his own inclinations.he is shrewd on telling detail.' The Times 'less a biography than a delightful account of Shakespeare's elusiveness – and the extraordinary lengths people have gone to remedy it.the pairing of Bryson with Shakespeare is a happy one.’ TLS Bryson is great at picking out of the morass of Elizabethan fact the small details that illuminate and amuse.he also uncovers from the world that surrounded the theatre some fascinating examples of Elizabethan eccentricity.As an abbreviated tour around the world of Shakespeare, this could hardly be bettered.' Sunday Times
'A brilliantly funny and gently insightful travel guide to 16th century England. 'Pleasant quirky details.make for enjoyable interludes.admirable.' Sunday Telegraph 'This season's best-selling volume.' Independent.
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