Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration."—Dan Cryer, NewsdayThe New York Times - Michiko KakutaniThere are no obscure invocations of the French philosopher Michel Foucault in these pages, no pseudo-Marxist readings of Shakespeare's plays. Instead, in the opening sections of this book, Mr. Greenblatt succinctly and vividly conjures up the Elizabethan world in which young Will came of age, showing how the religious and political upheavals of the day, as well as contemporaneous aesthetic conventions, shaped his sensibility and his work.
Ch. 1Primal scenes23Ch. 2The dream of restoration54Ch. 3The great fear87Ch. 4Wooing, wedding, and repenting118Ch. 5Crossing the bridge149Ch. 6Life in the suburbs175Ch. 7Shakescene199Ch. 8Master-mistress226Ch. 9Laughter at the scaffold256Ch. 10Speaking with the dead288Ch. 11Bewitching the king323Ch. 12The triumph of the everyday356
