Bill Bryson
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

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  • Alexander Reykharthas quoted6 years ago
    “Was Hamlet a Man or a Woman?” and others of similarly inventive cast.
  • Alexander Reykharthas quoted6 years ago
    Was Hamlet a Man or a Woman?” and others of similarly inventive cast.
  • Aleksei Melnikovhas quoted7 years ago
    patently could do both
  • Aleksei Melnikovhas quoted7 years ago
    John Shakespeare rose through a series of positions of authority in which an inability to read would have been a tiresome, if not insuperable, handicap
  • Aleksei Melnikovhas quoted7 years ago
    reasonably consequential town
  • Aleksei Melnikovhas quoted7 years ago
    when his father, John, was fined 1 shilling for keeping a dung heap in Henley Street in Stratford. This was a matter not just of civic fussiness but of real concern because of the town’s repeated plague outbreaks
  • Aleksei Melnikovhas quoted7 years ago
    sumptuary laws weren’t actually much enforced
  • Aleksei Melnikovhas quoted7 years ago
    unusual for felons to be disemboweled
  • Aleksei Melnikovhas quoted7 years ago
    they were raised abruptly—and, for most people, crushingly
  • Aleksei Melnikovhas quoted7 years ago
    their habit of being willfully disobedient to authority and dangerously outspoken
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