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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 822.33 EAN: 9780393327373 ISBN: 039332737X Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: September 19, 2005 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Editorial Review: Product Description: "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration."—Dan Cryer, Newsday Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that 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. Bringing together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare's plays, Greenblatt makes inspired connections between the life and the works and delivers "a dazzling and subtle biography" (Richard Lacayo, Time). Readers will experience Shakespeare's vital plays again as if for the first time, but with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity. A best book of the year: The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2004 • Time magazine's #1 Best Nonfiction Book • A Washington Post Book World Rave • An Economist Best Book • A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book • A Christian Science Monitor Best Book • A Chicago Tribune Best Book • A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book • NPR's Maureen Corrigan's Best Average Rating:
 Rating: - Appreciating WillWill in the World enters the crowded arena of Shakespeare biographies with a bang. Many reviews have complained about the speculative nature of the text and the fact that Greenblatt takes "liberties" with many details of Shakespeare`s life. Well, how could he not? Don't read this book for a run of the mill biography. Read it for its interesting analysis of Shakespeare's works and their possible connections to his life and values. Appreciation of biographies of Shakespeare are only ... Read More Rating:  - GREENBLATT MAKES WILL NEFARIOUS TO SELL BOOKSDespite a strong first half, this book diminishes in the second into a mere hack work instead of a first-rate scholarly piece largely due to Greenblatt's decision to become an A.S.S. [another secular scholar ] and aim at high sales;instead of remaining focused on the greatest writer to ever live, he spices the narrative with little-known saucy tidbits such as the "Dark Lady "of the sonnets was a negress and Will really DID have a thing for his daughter. These lurid details on top of Greenblatt's ... Read More Rating: - A slew of theoriesThe book is well-written overall. My main disappointment arose when trying to sort out fact from fiction and fiction from conjecture. The author makes a lot of inferences based off of the little information about Shakespeare's life. It seems a lot like PCR (polymerse chain reaction), where a little DNA is taken and amplified so that there is more to work with. This is not a great way to write about a person's life. Unfortunately, it does not end there. He will go on for pages about what may or may ... Read More Rating:  - Renewed my Love of the BardAn excellent update on Shakespeare scholarship that wasn't boring. I found myself ready to grab up my complete works once again and this finally read all the sonnets! Rating: - William Shakespeare BiographyStephen Greenblatt has done an outstanding job with this biography of William Shakespeare. Writing a biography about someone who has been dead for nearly five hundred year must be a challenging goal. Especially since Shakespeare left little in his own hand, other than his published works. Greenblatt in this book says that, "There is no way of achieving any certainty. After generations of feverish research, no one has been able to offer more than guesses, careful or wild, which are ... Read More |
