Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt

464 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography literary reflective slow-paced

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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 Gree...

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