- English Dramatists, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts.
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About the book
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Eminent Lives, Perennial, HarperCollins e-books
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Spanish, English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780007368969
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- English Dramatists
- Biography
- Biography & Autobiography
- Nonfiction
- Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616
- Dramatists, biography
- history
- Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, biography
- Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, contemporary england
- Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation
- Early modern
- Authors, english
“Before he came into a lot of money in 1839, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, led a largely uneventful life.”
"William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling Anglo-American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science." - Wikipedia
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