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Bill Bryson: Shakespeare: The World as Stage

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million …

Review of 'Shakespeare: The World as Stage' on 'Goodreads'

Quite interesting, it contains everything known about Shakespeare with some background information about Elizabethan and Jacobian times. Since there is not overly much proven evidence about Shakespeare, a lot of musings and guessing has been left out.
The anti-Stratfordian movement was included in the last chapter, which I found quite fun. People will claim anything to prove themselves right.