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Shakespeare: The World as Stage

by Bill Bryson

Harper. (Eminent Lives). 2008. 208p. ISBN 9780061673696. pap. $13.99.

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In this short introduction, Bryson's investigation of the known elements of Shakespeare's life is combined with details about Elizabethan England, all in lively, readable prose.

Reviewed by Nicholas Graham , Jan 01, 2014

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