Will in the World
How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$35.24
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2016
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393352603 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393352609 |
| Author: | Stephen Greenblatt |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 357g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 140mm x 211mm |
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Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. A leading scholar of English Renaissance literature, he serves as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including Dark Renaissance and the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning The Swerve.
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