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I fully recommend Bill Bryson’s “Shakespeare: The World as Stage”. I don’t have a lot of interest in Shakespeare but I love Bryson and gave this book a chance.
by plasticsoprano 1y ago
I fully recommend Bill Bryson’s “Shakespeare: The World as Stage”. I don’t have a lot of interest in Shakespeare but I love Bryson and gave this book a chance. Like most of his books it is super fascinating and entertaining. We know so little about Shakespeare including the fact we don’t actually know what he looked like.
- arresin 1y agoThat was great. Absolute favourite of his is “one summer” about America in the 1920s. It’s a masterpiece.
- gsinclair 1y agoAnd “A short history of nearly everything” should be considered required reading for anyone who is interested in anything. Thanks for the reminder of “one summer”. I haven’t read that yet.
- plasticsoprano 1y agoOne summer is amazing. Who knew so many monumental things happened that year?
- ahazred8ta 1y ago> don’t actually know what he looked like His effigy was carved by a sculptor who lived around the corner from the Globe theater, so he probably got the likeness right. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheerart_Janssen_(sculptor)#Nicholas_Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheerart_Janssen_(sculptor)#Ni...>