{"product_id":"will-in-the-world-how-shakespeare-became-shakespeare-by-stephen-greenblatt","title":"Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration.\"―Dan Cryer,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who \"knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did\" (John Leonard, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHarper's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), 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. A young man from the provinces―a man without wealth, connections, or university education―moves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an achievement to be explained?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWill in the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. Above all, we never lose sight of the great works―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and more―that continue after four hundred years to delight and haunt audiences everywhere. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare's life have been known for over a century, but now Stephen Greenblatt shows how this particular life history gave rise to the world's greatest writer. 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 deliver \"a dazzling and subtle biography\" (Richard Lacayo, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Best Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 10 Best Books of 2004; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine's #1 Best Nonfiction Book; A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Book World Rave ; An \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEconomist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Best Book ; A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Best Book; A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Best Book; A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Best Book; A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Best Book ; NPR's Maureen Corrigan's Best. 16 pages of color illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Read Room","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59552922534174,"sku":null,"price":380.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":59552922566942,"sku":null,"price":510.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":59552922599710,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1076\/7515\/6766\/files\/714o8llWg-L._SL1050.jpg?v=1783274283","url":"https:\/\/www.readroombd.com\/products\/will-in-the-world-how-shakespeare-became-shakespeare-by-stephen-greenblatt","provider":"Read Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}