William Shakespeare, gentleman
On my new Kindle, I’m ready a pithy Shakespeare biography by Bill Bryson. Bryson is one of my favorite authors, writing one of my favorite books of all time – A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Notwithstanding any of this, there are times when you’re reading about a subject and something clicks to help you understand it. Here is an excerpt from Shakespeare that helped me understand the fellow’s significance, speaking about the prosperity of the Latin language in Shakespeare’s day:
Thanks in no small measure to the work Shakespeare and his fellows, English was at last rising to preeminence in the county of its creation. ‘It is telling,’ observes Stanley Wells, ‘ that Shakespeare’s birth is recorded in Latin but that he dies in English, as ‘William Shakespeare, gentleman.’
Just thought I’d share. Get a Kindle.
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09 May 2009 9:13 pm
How many blogs you have now! I enjoyed Bryson’s book as well after you loaned it to me.
Bryson’s talk of the universe truly puts things in perspective (the analogy that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth).
I just finished reading Warren Buffett’s biography. It’s a bit long but an interesting read. Read this on one of Buffet’s inner circle friends.