Will in the world
Subtitle: how Shakespeare became Shakespeare
By: Stephen Greenblatt.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.; Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.; England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? Stephen Greenblatt enables us to see, hear, and feel 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. Greenblatt makes inspired connections between an entertainment presented to Queen Elizabeth on a visit to the countryside during Shakespeare's boyhood and passages in A Midsummer Night's Dream; between his family's secret Catholicism and the ghost that haunts Hamlet; between the hanging of a Jewish physician in London and The Merchant of Venice; between Shakespeare's own son Hamnet's death and the most famous burial scene in literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-407) and index.