Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt (Author)
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
Biography
430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9780393050578, 9780393928808, 9780393327373, 0393050572, 0393928802, 039332737X
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| Preface | 11 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 15 | ||
| A Note to the Reader | 17 | ||
| CHAPTER 1: Primal Scenes | 23 | ||
| CHAPTER 2: The Dream of Restoration | 54 | ||
| CHAPTER 3: The Great Fear | 87 | ||
| CHAPTER 4: Wooing, Wedding, and Repenting | 118 | ||
| CHAPTER 5: Crossing the Bridge | 149 | ||
| CHAPTER 6: Life in the Suburbs | 175 | ||
| CHAPTER 7: Shakescene | 199 | ||
| CHAPTER 8: Master-Mistress | 226 | ||
| CHAPTER 9: Laughter at the Scaffold | 256 | ||
| CHAPTER 10: Speaking with the Dead | 288 | ||
| CHAPTER 11: Bewitching the King | 323 | ||
| CHAPTER 12: The Triumph of the Everyday | 356 | ||
| Bibliographical Notes | 391 | ||
| Index | 409 |
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