I thought I would post an update since I'm taking longer with this book than I thought. Classes started up again this week so that took up some of my time. But now I'm back on track!
Currently I am reading Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson. This is a volume in the Eminent Lives Series. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_Lives). So far I am loving it! I've always loved Bill Bryson's books and this one is no different. What is so great about this biography is that it is so brief - only 198 pages! Other biographies of the Bard are hundreds of pages long and contain rumor, speculation, and repetition. Bryson states at the outset how little information there truly is about one of, if not the greatest playwrights of all time. He does a great job telling the reader what we absolutely know about Shakespeare, what we can infer but not prove, and what is just pure speculation without proof. Though trying to trace Shakepeare's life and career Bryson also gives the reader a glimpse at Elizabethan England, the good and the bad. This makes the information we do know about Shakespeare that much more miraculous.
I can't wait to finish it - right now I'm on page 120, but after I finish this update I plan on finishing the rest before I go to bed. Maybe I'll read some of the other books in the series - although they may not be as well written as Bryson's.
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