Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 - 430 Seiten
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? How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? [In this volume, the author] 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 ... In every case, [the author] brings a flash of illumination to the work, enabling us to experience these great plays again as if for the first time, and with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity.--Dust jacket.

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Preface
11
Acknowledgments
15
A Note to the Reader
17
Primal Scenes 23
21
The Dream of Restoration
54
The Great Fear
87
Wooing Wedding and Repenting
118
Crossing the Bridge
149
Shakescene
199
MasterMistress
226
Laughter at the Scaffold
256
Speaking with the Dead
288
Bewitching the King
323
The Triumph of the Everyday
356
Bibliographical Notes
391
Index
409

Life in the Suburbs
175

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Stephen Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. He is the author of Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965); Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980); Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (1990); Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992); The Norton Shakespeare (1997); Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004); Shakespeare's Freedom (2010); and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011).

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