The release date for the English version of 'Shakespeare: The World as Stage' by
Bill Bryson is Nov 2007. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Bill Bryson seems like a strange pick to author this Eminent Lives series installment at first sight.
'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid's' author isn't a dramatist, biography, or even a scholar of Shakespeare, after all.
However, it seems from reading "Shakespeare The World As Stage" that the Bard himself would have chosen someone much like this colorful Iowan for the job.
Shakespeare is approached by the author of "The Mother Tongue" and "A Walk in the Woods," who tackles the work with the same spirit of exploration and abandon that made those novels such beloved reads. A novel perspective on a mysterious creative genius.