Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (AudiobooK)

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (AudiobooK)
Recorded Books | 2004 | ISBN: 1419309439 | MP3@32 kbps | 15 hrs 22 mins | 210.13 Mb

There's no shortage of good Shakespearean biographies. But Stephen Greenblatt, brilliant scholar and author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, reminds us that the "surviving traces" are "abundant but thin" as to known facts. He acknowledges the paradox of the many biographies spun out of conjecture but then produces a book so persuasive and breathtakingly enjoyable that one wonders what he could have done if the usual stuff of biographical inquiry--memoirs, interviews, manuscripts, and drafts--had been at his disposal. Greenblatt uses the "verbal traces" in Shakespeare's work to take us "back into the life he lived and into the world to which he was so open."