Title: Will in the World
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.
Subjects: Theater, Intellectual life, English Dramatists, Biography, History, Biographies, Early modern, Histoire, Dramaturges anglais, Théâtre, Vie intellectuelle, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, Dramatists, Theater, great britain, Great britain, intellectual life, Great britain, biography, Dramatists, biography, Theater, great britain, history, Shakespeare, william , 1564-1616, Dramatists, english, Dramatists, english--early modern, 1500-1700--biography, Theater--history, Theater--england--history--16th century, Pr2894 .g74 2004, 822.3/3 b, Drama - literary criticism, Theater - biography, Theater - history & criticism, British & irish literary biography, English literature
Places: England
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: 16th century, Early modern, 1500-1700