{"product_id":"will-in-the-world-how-shakespeare-became-shakespeare-9780393352603","title":"Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world's greatest playwright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreenblatt, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, he is the author of eleven books, including \u003cem\u003eTyrant, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWill in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eHamlet in Purgatory\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMarvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLearning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eRenaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including \u003cem\u003eCultural Mobility: A Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, and is a founding coeditor of the journal \u003cem\u003eRepresentations\u003c\/em\u003e. His honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for both \u003cem\u003eShakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Swerve\u003c\/em\u003e, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629976686866,"sku":"9780393352603","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3cb1826e-c578-44e2-91de-bf0d2afe6b52.jpg?v=1732738948","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/will-in-the-world-how-shakespeare-became-shakespeare-9780393352603","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}