Will in the World
How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
By Stephen J. Greenblatt
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393050578, 384pp.)
Publication Date: September 2004
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (September 2005), Audio Cassette (December 2004), Compact Disc (December 2004), Compact Disc (September 2004)
Categories: Literary, Shakespeare
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Description
Greenblatt interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. Readers see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world.











