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Will in the World

By Stephen Greenblatt

How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

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Will in the World

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The highly acclaimed story of the most famous playwright the world has ever known, from his life in Tudor England, to the influences on his literature, all deftly described by one of the most prominent Shakespeare scholars of today.

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Biography fans • literature majors • history lovers • Shakespeare buffs • theater goers • romantics

About the author of Will in the World

Multi-award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is a Professor of Humanities at Harvard University as well as the General Editor of the textbooks, The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature. He has written numerous publications, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize.

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