| Variant title |
How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare |
| Contents |
Primal scenes -- The dream of restoration -- The great fear -- Wooing, wedding, and repenting -- Crossing the bridge -- Life in the suburbs -- Shakescene -- Master-mistress -- Laughter at the scaffold -- Speaking with the dead -- Bewitching the king -- The triumph of the everyday. |
| Abstract |
This volume is a biography on English poet and playwright, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. In this work, the author attempts to provide a vivid and plausible version of the undocumented areas of Shakespeare's life. The author intends to demonstrate 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. He brings together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare's plays and makes connections between Shakespeare's life and his works. |
| Local note | Little-473075--3051310687595 |
| Local note | Little-357990--305131063257- |
| Local note | Little-473075--3051310687595 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-407) and index. |
| Awards note | National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2004 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographie. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2004011512 |
| ISBN | 0393050572 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780393050578 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0393928802 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780393928808 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780393327373 |
| ISBN | 039332737X |
