“According to Bryson, anyone can write a book about Shakespeare and not tell us anything except what other people have told us..the point being - there is no point to this book.This book could have been summed up in one sentence "I don't know anything about the life of Shakespeare"”
“i thought this book was terrible. i, too, enjoy most everything that bryson writes. but this book, to me, was just a waste of time.”
“I am really enjoying this book. But, I love everything by Bryson. What really gets me is that he gets rid of all the "academic" talk and draws a fine line between what is known of Shakespeare and what is purely conjecture. I like that about it. According to him 5% of Shakespeare's biographical information, pulled from serious scholars, is fact. The other 95% is formed with insufficient evidence and purely speculative. ”
