NewMexiKen read Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)
last evening. The 199-page biography is well-paced, occasionally witty — though less so than Bryson’s usual work — and informative. He sticks pretty much to the life and times — and how little we actually know and can know about the Bard. There are quotations from the plays and sonnets, of course, but this is a biography, not comparative literature.
I liked it.