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...
Funny as ever~
评分Simple, elegant, informative and amusing. A straightforward timeline of Shakespeare's life and quite the most reasonable speculation of his career. Shrouded in mysteries, as most part of his life is regrettably unknown, "...he is a kind of literary equivalent of an electron-forever there and not there." ❤ my #1 Bryson
评分虽然老说他文风轻浮段子手,但有时候畅销书作家开拓素材和寻找角度的方式真的很值得学习。莎翁研究卷帙浩繁,看了一肚子前人研究,吐出来的可能是一篇枯燥的综述,一本研究史,也可以如侦探小说般悬念丛生,从档案、票据、诉讼文件等零星的确凿证据中逐步推想出莎士比亚的时代面貌及其生平。作者时不时吐槽前人研究中太过鸡零狗碎和神神叨叨的部分,原来全世界都一样,经典化的过程难免走火入魔——前半截想起鲁迅研究中的“鲁迅家的灶台究竟朝哪个方向”,后半截则像红楼梦研究中的“石破天惊!红楼梦作者实为冒辟疆!”
评分睡前读物,缓慢进展,终于看完~
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。
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