Will in the world, how Shakespeare became Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt
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Will in the world, how Shakespeare became Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-407) and index
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individual biography
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illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Will in the world
Nature of contents
bibliography
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55286224
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Stephen Greenblatt
Sub title
how Shakespeare became Shakespeare
Summary
This volume is a biography on English poet and playwright, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. In this work, the author attempts to provide a vivid and plausible version of the undocumented areas of Shakespeare's life. The author intends to demonstrate how an acutely sensitive and talented boy -- surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger -- could have become the world's greatest playwright. He brings together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare's plays and makes connections between Shakespeare's life and his works
Table Of Contents
Primal scenes -- The dream of restoration -- The great fear -- Wooing, wedding, and repenting -- Crossing the bridge -- Life in the suburbs -- Shakescene -- Master-mistress -- Laughter at the scaffold -- Speaking with the dead -- Bewitching the king -- The triumph of the everyday
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