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Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare

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 and rose to became his age's foremost playwright
Print Book, English, 2004
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W.W. Norton, New York, 2004
Biographies
430 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
9780965931182, 0965931188
1000415360
Primal scenes
The dream of restoration
The great fear
Wooing, wedding, and repenting
Crossing the bridge
Life in the suburbs
Shakescene
Master-mistress
Laughter at the scaffold
Speaking with the dead
Bewitching the king
The triumph of the everyday