Bartholomew Bradbridge: A Budding Bard is Holly Snow Sillau's thirty-sixth book. It's the fictional account of how William Shakespeare crafted some of the lines and expressions for which he is most well known. Take a gander at the goings-on in the Bard's rented parlor, in a theater so aptly called The Theatre, and at other locations in London in the 1590s and early 1600s. Discover who the real bard was after all.