Considering the hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about
Shakespeare, relatively little is known about the man himself. In the absence
of much documentation about his life, we have the plays and poetry he wrote.
In this addition to the Eminent Lives series, bestselling author Bryson
(The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid) does what he does best: marshaling
the usual little facts that others might overlook.for example, that in
Shakespeare's day perhaps 40% of women were pregnant when they got married.to
paint a portrait of the world in which the Bard lived and prospered. Bryson's
curiosity serves him well, as he delves into subjects as diverse as the
reliability of the extant images of Shakespeare, a brief history of the theater
in England and the continuing debates about whether William Shakespeare of
Stratford-upon-Avon really wrote Shakespeare's works. Bryson is a pleasant and
funny guide to a subject at once overexposed and elusive.as Bryson puts it, he
is a kind of literary equivalent of an electron.forever there and not there.

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