| Description |
430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Primal scenes -- Ch. 2. The dream of restoration -- Ch. 3. The great fear -- Ch. 4. Wooing, wedding, and repenting -- Ch. 5. Crossing the bridge -- Ch. 6. Life in the suburbs -- Ch. 7. Shakescene -- Ch. 8. Master-mistress -- Ch. 9. Laughter at the scaffold -- Ch. 10. Speaking with the dead -- Ch. 11. Bewitching the king -- Ch. 12. The triumph of the everyday |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references : pages [391]-407 |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
022406276X hardback |
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