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Genre/Form: | Biographie Biographies History Biographies (form) Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- Will in the World. (OCoLC)1227380777 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Greenblatt |
ISBN: | 0393050572 9780393050578 0393928802 9780393928808 9780393327373 039332737X |
OCLC Number: | 55286224 |
Awards: | National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2004 |
Description: | 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
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. |
Other Titles: | How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare |
Responsibility: | Stephen Greenblatt. |
More information: |
Abstract:
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.
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