The Times 'As wryly humorous as you'd expect...Bryson dig[s] up some enjoyably obscure nuggets.'
Time Out 'A joy from first to last...An accessible, exhilarating biography that's shot through with Bryson's trademark humour and irreverence...Tremendous.'
Irish Times 'Bryson's short biography is about as enjoyable as history books get. Bryson brings his trademark wit to a complex subject.'
TLS 'Less a biography than a delightful account of Shakespeare's elusiveness...The pairing of Bryson with Shakespeare is a happy one.'
Financial Times 'A warm and funny guide through the whole complicated morass of Shakespearean scholarship.'
Sunday Times '[A] fast paced jaunt through Bardolatry...wittily evokes Elizabethan England.'
Daily Express 'A work worthy of one of the greatest writers in the English language.'
Waterstone's Books Quarterly 'Information and wit in spades...this book is a fine addition to the canon of biographies.'
Independent `The nation's favourite living writer shrewdly sieves out the likely form the outlandish...'
