There’s no play attributed to Shakespeare about a Puritan woman who whipped her cat for catching mice on Sunday. The lack doesn’t prevent Bill Bryson’s biography of the poet, “Shakespeare/The ...

Atlas Books, $19.95In 196 engaging pages, Bill Bryson accomplishes quite a bit. He clearly delineates what can be known from the small amount of documentation about William Shakespeare and what has ...

Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

If you have never read a book about William Shakespeare, please read this one: “Shakespeare: A Life,” by Park Honan (Oxford University Press, 450 pages, $39.95). It’s an exceptional work about a man ...

The monthly book club at Bogart’s Coffee House is reading “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare” by Stephen Greenblatt. The biography will be discussed from 7 to 9 p.m. on April 26, ...

At their best, Shakespearean biographers are like great jazz musicians, able to take a few notes of an old standard and spin them into dizzying riffs of conjecture. At their worst they reshuffle old ...

There Was a Starre Daunst, and Under That Was I Borne William Shakespeare is popularly supposed to have been born on 23 April 1564, or St. George’s Day. The date may in fact have been 21 April or 22 ...

Boris Johnson is to write a biography of William Shakespeare for Hodder & Stoughton for October 2016. The publisher has confirmed the deal, which was reported in the Sunday Times to have been done for ...

Lend me your ears: Boris Johnson is to write a biography of Shakespeare Boris Johnson has signed a deal worth £500,000 with the publisher Hodder & Stoughton to write a biography of William Shakespeare ...

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