But just as significant as these sources are the people Bryson visits (among them an expert in portraiture, an archivist at the National Archives in West London and an assortment of scholars) and the places he goes. Bryson insists on the very exceptional situation that so much of his works have survived, and this is thanks to the initiative of two of WS’s friends and colleagues, Henry Condell and John Heminges, who decided to publish the First Folio posthumously. This book tells us to great lengths that there is nothing to affirm about the man Shakespeare was, on his emotional side, about his sexuality. Bryson explains that every atom contains a dense nucleus packed with protons (positive charge) and neutrons (no charge), that electrons (negative charge) circle around. Bill Bryson: 'I'm American, but I cheer for England now in the World Cup until they get kicked out' ".

So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Nancy Dalva wrote in the New York Observer: "Right off, the author’s established his blithe and sunny tone: If a trio of witches were cooking up this book in a cauldron, there’d be a pinch of P. Either way – it was a fun read, and just the type of book that’s easy to pick up and put down frequently.A lot of biographies can be bogged down by completely unnecessary information which causes the page number to rise to the thousands. The author of ‘The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid’ isn’t, after all, a Shakespeare scholar, a playwright, or even a biographer. Such was the popularity of sugar that people's teeth often turned black, and those who failed to attain the condition naturally sometimes blackened their teeth artificially to show that they had had their share of sugar, too.

Here is a quick description and cover image of book Shakespeare: The World as Stage written by Bill Bryson which was published in 2007–. Buckland’s assumption that Mantell’s fossilized tooth belongs to a lizard exposes, once again, limitations in scientific knowledge.

Bill Bryson's bestselling books include One Summer, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home, A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here nor There, Made in America, and The Mother Tongue. When the famous bone examiner George Cuvier receives some mammoth bones in France, he names the creature a “mastodon” (meaning “nipple teeth”) and develops the theory of extinction. They define this biography series according to Strachey’s stated objective of: “To preserve a becoming brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant”.

Having emphasized the vast scale of the universe, Bryson now switches tracks to discuss the minute nature of the tiniest particles on Earth.Bryson also provides another case in which religious intuitions misdirect scientific efforts with Jefferson. Bryson symbolizes the atom as a fly in a cathedral to help the reader conceptualize the vast amount of empty space that each atom contains.

If the cathedral is the size of the whole atom, everything except the space that the fly (nucleus) takes up is empty, meaning the atom is almost entirely comprised of empty space.

Here Bryson as usual entertains us with, amongst other things, various tales of those who have seemingly dedicated years of their lives attempting to get to the heart of and establish some hitherto unknown truths about Shakespeare and his works.