num_pages: 438
description: Named One of Esquire 's 50 Best Biographies of All TimeThe Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares 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 worlds greatest playwright. 23 illustrations
language: English
title: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company