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  1. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age {just two months older than Shakespeare}, had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.
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  2. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    General admission for groundlings-those who stood in the open around the stage-was a penny. Those who wished to sit paid a penny more, and those who desired a cushion paid another penny on top of that-all this at a time when a day's wage was 1 shilling {12 pence} or less a day. The money was dropped into a box, which was taken to a special room for safekeeping-the box office.
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  3. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    In breve, e come sempre, in Shakespeare un lettore attento può trovare sostegno per quasi qualsiasi posizione voglia prendere. {O come lo stesso Shakespeare ha scritto in una battuta citata spesso a sproposito: «Il diavolo può citare le Sacre Scritture per i propri fini».}
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  4. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.
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  5. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    They can tell us not only what Shakespeare wrote but what he read. Geoffrey Bullough devoted a lifetime, nearly, to tracking down all possible sources for virtually everything mentioned in Shakespeare, producing eight volumes of devoted exposition revealing not only what Shakespeare knew but precisely how he knew it.
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  6. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    Yet Malone, remarkably, was a model of restraint compared with others, such as John Payne Collier, who was also a scholar of great gifts, but grew so frustrated at the difficulty of finding physical evidence concerning Shakespeare's life that he began to create his own, forging documents to bolster his arguments if not, ultimately, his reputation. He was eventually exposed when the keeper of mineralogy at the British Museum proved with a series of ingenious chemical tests that several of Collier's "discoveries" had been written in pencil and then traced over and that the ink in the forged passages was demonstrably not ancient. It was essentially the birth of forensic science. This was in 1859.
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  7. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    Among the words first found in Shakespeare are abstemious, antipathy, critical, frugal, dwindle, extract, horrid, vast, hereditary, critical, excellent, eventful, barefaced, assassination, lonely, leapfrog, indistinguishable, well-read, zany, and countless others {including countless}.
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  8. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    Criminality was so widespread that its practitioners split into fields of specialization. Some became coney catchers, or swindlers {a coney was a rabbit reared for the table and thus unsuspectingly tame}; others became foists {pickpockets}, nips, or nippers {cutpurses}, hookers {who snatched desirables through open windows with hooks}, abtams {who feigned lunacy to provide a distraction}, whipjacks, fingerers, cross biters, cozeners, courtesy men, and many more. Brawls were shockingly common.
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  9. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was at the time American consul in Liverpool, provided a preface, then almost instantly wished he hadn't, for the book was universally regarded by reviewers as preposterous hokum. Hawthorne under questioning admitted that he hadn't actually read it. "This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as {I} live," he vowed in a letter to a friend.
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  10. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    {...}we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don't really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.
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  11. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things-as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person.
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  12. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions. But the writer might just as well have suggested that Shakespeare never owned a pair of shoes or pants. For all the evidence tells us, he spent his life naked from the waist down, as well as bookless, but it is probably that what is lacking is the evidence, not the apparel or the books.
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