Shakespeare LP

<p>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. With a steady hand and his trademark wit Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.</p><p>Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues Bryson records episodes in his research including a visit to a basement room in Washington D.C. where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. </p><p>Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness. His Shakespeare is like no one else's-the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature his engaging skepticism and a gift for storytelling unrivalled in our time.</p>