Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781446442593 (1446442594)
Publish date: March 31st 2012
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Plays,
Theatre,
Biography Memoir
Is there a Shakespearean lover who does not know that there is precious little actual information about Shakespeare and as a result there are all these theories speculating about who he really was? I’ve read a few of them, and I’ve always considered these to be crap that show us more about the enthu...
”To understand who Shakespeare was, it is important to follow the verbal traces he left behind back into the life he lived and into the world to which he was so open. And to understand how Shakespeare used his imagination to transform his life into his art, it is important to use our own imagination...
I never thought this would happen to me, but while I was reading this book, I actually had a sense of nostalgia for Harold Bloom. A woman I work with forced this book on me with the guarantee that I would adore it. I later found out that she "hates music like the Velvet Underground." It's always p...
I studied a lot of Shakespeare in college. I just like that guy. No one else can explore such huge themes so concisely and so beautifully, and I think he's the real deal.And he's hard to biographize, partly because we famously don't know a ton about him, but also I think partly because he was just s...
Stephen Greenblatt's reconstruction of Shakespeare's life and era. Read (nasally with added word drag) by Toby Stephens.Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 3:15pm Monday 2nd August 2010Duration:15 minutesAvailable until:3:32pm Monday 9th August 2010Categories:Drama, Historical
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