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Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt
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Description for Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Paperback. Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires and fears. In this book, by reconnecting with this historic reality we are able to experience the true character of the playwright himself. It traces Shakespeare's unfolding imaginative generosity. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 312 x 36. Weight in Grams: 616.
Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age. Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires and fears, and by reconnecting with this historic reality we are able to experience the true character of the playwright himself. Greenblatt traces Shakespeare's unfolding imaginative generosity - his ability to inhabit others, to confer upon them his own strength of spirit, to make them truly live as independent beings as no other artist has ever done. Digging deep into the vital links between the playwright and his world, Will in the World provides the fullest account ever written of the living, breathing man behind the masterpieces.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847924520
SKU
V9781847924520
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About Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has edited seven collections of literary criticism.
Reviews for Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
A vast shelf of biographies of the Bard exists, but this is the book I would take with me to a desert island
Jay Parini
Guardian
A work of wonderful erudition that can be read as an accessible introduction to the social and political milieu from which Shakespeare emerged, and as an elegant guide to the astonishing poems and plays themselves
New Statesman
Both insightful literary criticism and a gripping piece of psychological detective work ... Stephen Greenblatt has few equals as a Shakespeare scholar
Metro
A delight, full of new insights and infused with a rich understanding of precisely why Shakespeare's writing gives us such lasting pleasure ... quite superb
John Simpson
Sunday Times 'Books of the Year'
Thought-provoking ... full of unexpected touches ... beautifully written
Andrew Marr
Daily Telegraph
Riveting
Independent
Really gives a sense of being in touch with the man. Greenblatt's knowledge of the plays and the times in which they were written is so encyclopaedic that he can assemble a convincing portrait of Shakespeare without resorting to smoke and mirrors
Sunday Times
The most complexly intelligent and sophisticated, and yet the most keenly enthusiastic, study of the life and work taken together that I have ever read
Adam Gopnik
New Yorker
One of the finest recent Shakespeare biographies
Robert McCrum
Guardian
Greenblatt's fantastically readable biography of our greatest writer paints a riveting portrait of Elizabethan England
Daily Telegraph
Compulsively readable and deeply imaginative
Stanley Wells At last, the book Shakespeare has deserved: a brilliant book written by a virtual eyewitness who understands how a playwright takes the stuff of his life and his world and makes it into theatre
Charles Mee A tour de force ... a book for artists and ordinary people as well as scholars and students
Tina Packer A wonderful piece of work
Simon Russell Beale
Jay Parini
Guardian
A work of wonderful erudition that can be read as an accessible introduction to the social and political milieu from which Shakespeare emerged, and as an elegant guide to the astonishing poems and plays themselves
New Statesman
Both insightful literary criticism and a gripping piece of psychological detective work ... Stephen Greenblatt has few equals as a Shakespeare scholar
Metro
A delight, full of new insights and infused with a rich understanding of precisely why Shakespeare's writing gives us such lasting pleasure ... quite superb
John Simpson
Sunday Times 'Books of the Year'
Thought-provoking ... full of unexpected touches ... beautifully written
Andrew Marr
Daily Telegraph
Riveting
Independent
Really gives a sense of being in touch with the man. Greenblatt's knowledge of the plays and the times in which they were written is so encyclopaedic that he can assemble a convincing portrait of Shakespeare without resorting to smoke and mirrors
Sunday Times
The most complexly intelligent and sophisticated, and yet the most keenly enthusiastic, study of the life and work taken together that I have ever read
Adam Gopnik
New Yorker
One of the finest recent Shakespeare biographies
Robert McCrum
Guardian
Greenblatt's fantastically readable biography of our greatest writer paints a riveting portrait of Elizabethan England
Daily Telegraph
Compulsively readable and deeply imaginative
Stanley Wells At last, the book Shakespeare has deserved: a brilliant book written by a virtual eyewitness who understands how a playwright takes the stuff of his life and his world and makes it into theatre
Charles Mee A tour de force ... a book for artists and ordinary people as well as scholars and students
Tina Packer A wonderful piece of work
Simon Russell Beale