Read the following extract from Shakespeare by Bill Bryson and answer the questions below, in full sentences, on lined paper (the book is available on soraapp.com)
- What does the author Bill Bryson say of William Shakespeare in the first two sentences?
- What did Francis Thackeray suggest about Shakespeare?
- What announcement was made in 2009?
- By what name did they refer to the portrait of Shakespeare?
- Who unveiled the Cobbe portrait of Shakespeare?
- Katherine Duncan-Jones of Oxford University thought the portrait was of whom?
- What did the archaeologists from the Museum of London discover in Shoreditch about the same time as the Cobbe portrait came to light?