Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

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 in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

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 in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

by Stephen Greenblatt
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

by Stephen Greenblatt

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Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393352603
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 04/04/2016
Edition description: Anniversary Edition
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Stephen Greenblatt, PhD, is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. He is author of the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning The Swerve.

Hometown:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

November 7, 1943

Place of Birth:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Education:

B.A., Yale University, 1964; B.A., Cambridge University, 1966; Ph.D., Yale University, 1969

Table of Contents

Preface 11

Acknowledgments 15

A Note to the Reader 17

Chapter 1 Primal Scenes 23

Chapter 2 The Dream of Restoration 54

Chapter 3 The Great Fear 87

Chapter 4 Wooing, Wedding, and Repenting 118

Chapter 5 Crossing the Bridge 149

Chapter 6 Life in the Suburbs 175

Chapter 7 Shakescene 199

Chapter 8 Master-Mistress 226

Chapter 9 Laughter at the Scaffold 256

Chapter 10 Speaking with the Dead 288

Chapter 11 Bewitching the King 323

Chapter 12 The Triumph of the Everyday 356

Afterword 391

Bibliographical Notes 399

Index 417

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