Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: October 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781854794086
Subjects: Humour; Shakespeare plays, texts; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Humor / General; Humor/General
First sentence: Of Shakespeare's contemporaries, Ben Jonson's words are the most famous - perhaps because, while he was not stinting of admiration, he was also prepared to criticize him, saying at one point that he wished that Shakespeare had blotted out a thousand lines.