William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his bio graphy 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. 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 bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.
每次當我嘗試向人介紹這本書,總不知如何開口:想說這是一本莎士比亞的傳記吧,但它又的確不是,如書中所說,我們對莎翁一生的經歷所能確知者甚少,以至於一些很基本的問題,如他的長相如何,有無宗教信仰,是異性戀還是同性戀者,等等,都尚無定論。更令人好奇的是,其人一生...
评分每次當我嘗試向人介紹這本書,總不知如何開口:想說這是一本莎士比亞的傳記吧,但它又的確不是,如書中所說,我們對莎翁一生的經歷所能確知者甚少,以至於一些很基本的問題,如他的長相如何,有無宗教信仰,是異性戀還是同性戀者,等等,都尚無定論。更令人好奇的是,其人一生...
评分每次當我嘗試向人介紹這本書,總不知如何開口:想說這是一本莎士比亞的傳記吧,但它又的確不是,如書中所說,我們對莎翁一生的經歷所能確知者甚少,以至於一些很基本的問題,如他的長相如何,有無宗教信仰,是異性戀還是同性戀者,等等,都尚無定論。更令人好奇的是,其人一生...
评分每次當我嘗試向人介紹這本書,總不知如何開口:想說這是一本莎士比亞的傳記吧,但它又的確不是,如書中所說,我們對莎翁一生的經歷所能確知者甚少,以至於一些很基本的問題,如他的長相如何,有無宗教信仰,是異性戀還是同性戀者,等等,都尚無定論。更令人好奇的是,其人一生...
评分每次當我嘗試向人介紹這本書,總不知如何開口:想說這是一本莎士比亞的傳記吧,但它又的確不是,如書中所說,我們對莎翁一生的經歷所能確知者甚少,以至於一些很基本的問題,如他的長相如何,有無宗教信仰,是異性戀還是同性戀者,等等,都尚無定論。更令人好奇的是,其人一生...
中间其实稍有混乱,不过总的来说,尤其是综述anti-Stratford的部分的确enlightening
评分Bryson一支笔将莎学的里里外外,删繁就简,很清晰地呈现给了读者。这不光是一部文辞优美的小书,更是一部体现作者功力的入门书。建议每个对莎士比亚感兴趣的读者都读一读。
评分这书与其说是“关于莎士比亚,我们知道什么”,不如说是“关于莎士比亚,我们没法知道什么”。Bill Bryson还是一贯的辛辣幽默,喜欢他这种用一条线索穿起庞大脉络的写作方法
评分10/100 of 2016. Shakespeare is a legend.
评分10/100 of 2016. Shakespeare is a legend.
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