![]() It was also needlessly slipshod as Ben Jonson has a folio edition that is of stellar quality. The best chapters involve the production of the Folio edition of his works, which was a lot more chaotic and slipshod than we’d otherwise understand. He also reckons with the legacy of Shakespeare in a few ways. He also spends a lot of time making sure we know that a lot of what we think we know is often at best reasonable inference and worse, pure speculation. Bryson will present the specific facts, such the presence of a signature, being part of a lawsuit, records of performances, and lightly extrapolates what this tells this. What this means is that Bryson looks squarely at what we know for sure based on specific historical evidence, starting with his parents in Stratford before he is born, and then through childhood (where the young William avoiding dying from various plagues), and then through his marriage, his lost years, his writing years, his rich years, his death, and his afterlife. ![]() This book looks at the history of Shakespeare, as a person, and tries to sort out the facts. ![]() ![]() Cbr14Bingo – Font - While there’s a lot of talk of printing, printing errors, and handwriting in this book, I am mostly looking at this as a sober look at the facts we know about the life of Shakespeare with the dry wit and editorial selection prowess of Bill Bryson. ![]()
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