Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-2004
Book
Review: "How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? Stephen Greenblatt enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life - full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger - could have become the world's greatest playwright. Greenblatt makes inspired connections between an entertainment presented to Queen Elizabeth on a visit to the countryside during Shakespeare's boyhood and passages in A Midsummer Night's Dream; between his family's secret Catholicism and the ghost that haunts Hamlet; between the hanging of a Jewish physician in London and The Merchant of Venice; between Shakespeare's own son Hamnet's death and the most famous burial scene in literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Main title:
Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare / Stephen Greenblatt.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Jonathan, 2004.
Collation:
430 p., [16]p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes indexIncludes bibliographical references : p. [391]-407.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Primal scenes -- Ch. 2. The dream of restoration -- Ch. 3. The great fear -- Ch. 4. Wooing, wedding, and repenting -- Ch. 5. Crossing the bridge -- Ch. 6. Life in the suburbs -- Ch. 7. Shakescene -- Ch. 8. Master-mistress -- Ch. 9. Laughter at the scaffold -- Ch. 10. Speaking with the dead -- Ch. 11. Bewitching the king -- Ch. 12. The triumph of the everyday.
ISBN:
9780393327373022406276X9780224062763
Dewey class:
822.33
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
163812
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Literature | LITER 822.33 GREE | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 822.33 GREE | Available |