Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Anniversary Edition

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Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Anniversary Edition
Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Anniversary Edition
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Language : English
Release Date : 03 May 2010
ISBN : 9780393079845
Pages : 441 pages
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Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. 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.

Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Anniversary Edition

Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Anniversary Edition by Stephen Greenblatt

Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short

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