Title: Shakespeare Imaged
Product review: Stephen Greenblatt is a brilliant Renaissance scholar who utilizes his knowledge of that world to create a biography of William Shakespeare. In 400+ pages, Mr. Greenblatt reconstructs the playwright's life out of the merest of clues, for Shakespears lefted very little documentation behind of his life. Legal papers concerning his birth, marriage, children's births and his death constitute the bulk of the surviving documents from that era.The reader is cautioned that "Will In The World" is a tour de force of conjecture. Mr. Greenblatt may be making an educated and deductive guess but still a guess about the very large gaps of our knowledge of Shakespeare's life. Having said that, the book is so well-research and well-written that it is a nominee for the National Book Award. It is a wonderful introduction to the world of Shakespeare and Elizabethan England.
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