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Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- author.

Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare / Stephen Greenblatt.

First edition.

New York : W.W. Norton, [2004]

©2004

430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.

Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.

England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.

How Shakespeare became Shakespeare

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-407) and index.

National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2004

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.

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