The Glimmerglass Opera Book Club is launched with the reading of Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare: the World as Stage, a biography that celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of extraordinary talent and great inventiveness. Several books have been written posing the theory that Shakespeare was not Shakespeare, but rather Edward De Vere, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or others, but James Shapiro, author of A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, said of the book, “Bryson cuts through the wild speculation and conspiracy theory surrounding Shakespeare to get at what matters most: the writer’s life.”
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