Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt

430 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography literary reflective slow-paced

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The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commerci...

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