Will in the world: how Shakespeare became Shakespeare

"A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, an...

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Main Author: Greenblatt, Stephen 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London W.W. Norton & Company [2016]
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Summary:"A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world's greatest playwright."...
Item Description:"First published as a Norton paperback 2005"...Title page verso. - Afterword (pages 390-398). - Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-416) and index
Physical Description:438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations
ISBN:0393352609
9780393352603

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