Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare /
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 are...
| Main Author: | Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
[2004]
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| Physical Description: |
430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: |
Table of contents Program air date: November 14, 2004 View Verna F. Ritchie giftplate |
| Summary: |
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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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-407) and index. Primal scenes -- Dream of restoration -- 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 -- Triumph of the everyday. 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. National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2004. |
| Physical Description: |
430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Awards: |
National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2004. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-407) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0393050572 9780393050578 0393928802 9780393928808 9780393327373 039332737X |