# The Bard and the Book

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- Book: [The Bard and the Book](https://www.bookquiver.com/ann-bausum/the-bard-and-the-book) ([The Bard and the Book.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ann-bausum/the-bard-and-the-book.md))
- Authors: [Ann Bausum](https://www.bookquiver.com/ann-bausum), [Marta Sevilla](https://www.bookquiver.com/marta-sevilla), [Sean Patrick Hopkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/sean-patrick-hopkins)
- Publisher: peachtree
- ISBN: 978-16-8263-495-0
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2024-04-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The unlikely true story of why we know the name William Shakespeare today, and the four-hundred-year-old book that made it possible. Four hundred years ago, no one bothered to write down the exact words...