Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Author: Stephen Greenblat
Title: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, with a New Afterword
Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton
Date: 2004, 2016
Pages: 438
ISBN13: 9780393352603 Worldcat
Readership level: General, Undergraduate
Genre: Nonfiction

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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.  --Publisher's web site