Will in the world

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"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.

subjects: Theater,  Intellectual life,  English Dramatists,  Biography,  History,  Biographies,  Early modern,  Histoire,  Dramaturges anglais,  Théâtre,  Vie intellectuelle,  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616,  Dramatists,  Theater, great britain,  Great britain, intellectual life,  Great britain, biography,  Dramatists, biography,  Theater, great britain, history,  Shakespeare, william , 1564-1616,  Dramatists, english,  Dramatists, english--early modern, 1500-1700--biography,  Theater--history,  Theater--england--history--16th century,  Pr2894 .g74 2004,  822.3/3 b,  Drama - literary criticism,  Theater - biography,  Theater - history & criticism,  British & irish literary biography,  English literature

People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Places: England

Times: 16th century,  Early modern, 1500-1700