I fully recommend Bill Bryson’s “Shakespeare: The World as Stage”. I don’t have a lot of interest in Shakespeare but I love Bryson and gave this book a chance. Like most of his books it is super fascinating and entertaining. We know so little about Shakespeare including the fact we don’t actually know what he looked like.

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ahazred8ta 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> don’t actually know what he looked like

His effigy was carved by a sculptor who lived around the corner from the Globe theater, so he probably got the likeness right. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheerart_Janssen_(sculptor)#Ni...>

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bn-l 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That was great.

Absolute favourite of his is “one summer” about America in the 1920s. It’s a masterpiece.

	▲	gsinclair 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And “A short history of nearly everything” should be considered required reading for anyone who is interested in anything. Thanks for the reminder of “one summer”. I haven’t read that yet.
	▲	plasticsoprano 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		One summer is amazing. Who knew so many monumental things happened that year?