![]() ![]() The old conventional wisdom (which we were taught long ago) was that Shakespeare’s failure to leave his wife his best bed was a sign of strained marital relations. ![]() Take the matter of the “second-best bed” bequeathed to Mrs. ![]() We don’t blame him if Shakespeare biographers didn’t do this sort of thing, their books would be awfully short.Īnd we did learn a few things that we didn’t know, or needed to be corrected on. From pages 92 to 94 he bunny-trails into an entertaining biographical sketch of Christopher Marlowe. From pages 62 to 65, for instance, and for no compelling reason related to the life of Shakespeare, Bryson gives us a lively account of the English defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1567. We really liked this crisply written little book (196 pages and wide margins), even though a lot of it consists of filler material about 16th-century social and political history that doesn’t have any direct connection either with William Shakespeare or with the plays attributed to him. ![]()
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