Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright. |
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... scholar can write such an engaging, inventive yet subtle pageturner is a small miracle—reflecting the great miracle of Shakespeare himself.” —Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States “This compulsively readable and ...
... scholar can write such an engaging, inventive yet subtle pageturner is a small miracle—reflecting the great miracle of Shakespeare himself.” —Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States “This compulsively readable and ...
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... scholars and students.” —Tina Packer, artistic director, president, Shakespeare & Company “Despite his scholarship and sober good sense, Greenblatt's book is full of longing, a love letter to a man whom we will never get to know. It's a ...
... scholars and students.” —Tina Packer, artistic director, president, Shakespeare & Company “Despite his scholarship and sober good sense, Greenblatt's book is full of longing, a love letter to a man whom we will never get to know. It's a ...
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... Scholars have long and fruitfully studied the transforming work of that imagination on the books that, from evidence within the plays themselves, Shakespeare must certainly have read. As a writer he rarely started with a blank slate; he ...
... Scholars have long and fruitfully studied the transforming work of that imagination on the books that, from evidence within the plays themselves, Shakespeare must certainly have read. As a writer he rarely started with a blank slate; he ...
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... scholars. Even with this relative abundance of information, there are huge gaps in knowledge that make any biographical study of Shakespeare an exercise in speculation. What matters most are the works, most of which (the poems excepted) ...
... scholars. Even with this relative abundance of information, there are huge gaps in knowledge that make any biographical study of Shakespeare an exercise in speculation. What matters most are the works, most of which (the poems excepted) ...
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... scholar has put it, a male puberty rite. Even for an exceptionally apt student, that puberty rite could not have been pleasant. Still, though it doubtless inflicted its measure of both boredom and pain, the King's New School clearly ...
... scholar has put it, a male puberty rite. Even for an exceptionally apt student, that puberty rite could not have been pleasant. Still, though it doubtless inflicted its measure of both boredom and pain, the King's New School clearly ...
Contents
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The Great Fear | 87 |
Wooing Wedding and Repenting | 118 |
Crossing the Bridge | 149 |
Shakescene | 199 |
MasterMistress | 226 |
Laughter at the Scaffold | 256 |
Speaking with the Dead | 288 |
Bewitching the King | 323 |
The Triumph of the Everyday | 356 |
Bibliographical Notes | 391 |
Index 409 | 408 |
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