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Cargando... Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives Series) (2007 original; edición 2016)por Bill Bryson (Autor)
Información de la obraShakespeare : el mundo como escenario por Bill Bryson (2007)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Though not an academic, Bryson's written a well-researched book designed to illustrate how little we really know about Shakespeare. Nevertheless, through reading it we learn a great deal about the theatre of the time and many of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Bryson has fun de-bunking the various theories about who wrote Shakespeare's oeuvre if it was not the man himself. In fact the whole book is fun: light and easy to read, and yet by the end you feel you've learned a lot ( ) If you’re looking for a concise biography of William Shakespeare then Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare: The World as a Stage could fit the bill. With his typical wit and dry sense of humor, Bryson outlines the facts without a lot of conjecture while still managing to cover a lot of ground and outlooks. I listened to the audiobook that Bryson reads himself and does an excellent job (as always!). There are 120 notes and highlights in my ebook version of this work, and quite a number of them are words I especially like or wasn’t sure about. Very apt indeed that a book written about the creator of several hundred English words is written using such a wide range of vocabulary. We learn that we know almost nothing about the person (in case you are a fan of conspiracy theories, hold them tightly to your chest, proceed to the last chapter of this book, and be schooled, along with Looney, Silliman and Battey. You’re welcome.) but we have this amazing body of work, a good portion of it preserved in the First Folio. Imagine if they didn’t put together that collection. No, don’t, the world would be a very different place, with many academics left without a proper addiction (©Shakespeare). To give you an idea about the extent to which he gave us everyday words, think about how we would describe a simple scene like this without Shakespeare’s words: I felt lonely©, lying in my bedroom© motionless©, only a moonbeam© lighting the downstairs© room… Moreover, what would we do without phrases like ‘vanish into thin air’ or ‘flesh and blood’, just to name a couple? Or without the Shakespeare insult generators, thou vain beef-witted mammet? See? As always, I enjoyed Bryson’s wit and style immensely. Every piece of information he provided appeared to be exceptionally exciting (for instance, the origin of the phrase ‘box office’), and his level-headed appreciation of the subject of others’ obsession made it pure joy to read this book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Bill Bryson, célebre en todo el mundo por su "Una breve historia de casi todo", aborda ahora un enigma mayúsculo: la personalidad de William Shakespeare. De Hamlet, Otelo, el rey Lear y Macbeth conocemos mucho, pero del ser humano que los concibió apenas sabemos nada. Armado de un sano sentido común y de su admirado don comunicativo, Bryson examina datos, suposiciones y mitos para trazar una semblanza lo más precisa posible del dramaturgo y poeta de Stratford upon Avon. El resultado es una fascinante indagación en la vida (hasta donde alcanza la certidumbre) y el tiempo de Shakespeare. Bryson evoca la Inglaterra isabelina, con el azote de la peste, su expansionismo imperialista, la emergente capital londinense y los usos y costumbres del mundo teatral. Y en este marco histórico, que depara sorpresas notables y proporciona un marco muy enriquecedor para el lector actual de Shakespeare, surge la figura del poeta. Bryson no omite ninguno de los aspectos más controvertidos acerca de él. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)822.33Literature English & Old English literatures English drama Elizabethan 1558-1625 Shakespeare, William 1564–1616Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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