Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare - Rilegato

Greenblatt, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0393050572 ISBN 13: 9780393050578

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004

Riassunto

A portrait of Elizabethan England and how it contributed to the making of William Shakespeare discusses how he moved to London lacking money, connections, and a formal education; started a family; attempted to forge his career in the competitive theater world; grappled with dangerous religious and political forces; and rose to became his age's foremost playwright. 100,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

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

Product Description:

A young man from the provinces--a man without wealth, connections, or university education--moves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an achievement to be explained? "Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. Above all, we never lose sight of the great works--"A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and more--that continue after four hundred years to delight and haunt audiences everywhere. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare's life have been known for over a century, but now Stephen Greenblatt shows how this particular life history gave rise to the world's greatest writer.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0393050572
• ISBN 13: 9780393050578
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384