Will In The World

byStephen Greenblatt

How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

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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.

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

About Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

He is the author of fifteen 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.

A prize-winning author and celebrated scholar, he has been studying, thinking and writing about Renaissance literature for his entire working life.
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  • Imprint: Bodley Head
  • ISBN: 9781847924520
  • Length: 464 pages
  • Dimensions: 234mm x 34mm x 155mm
  • Weight: 564g
  • Price: £20.00
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