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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... Will Shakespeare a leading role. There is hard evidence from later in his life that Shakespeare loved this particular play's combination of logic and dizzying confusion, the characters constantly just missing the PRIMAL S CENES 27.
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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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