The author of the NY Times best-seller Will in the World and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Swerve reveals the daring and subversive life of Christopher Marlowe — Shakespeare’s contemporary, inspiration, and rival.
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Stephen Greenblatt chronicles the unlikely discovery of Lucretius’ poem “On the Nature of Things” — by a 15th-century Italian book hunt…
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A wizard of a storyteller, Greenblatt combines prodigious historical research and encyclopedic knowledge to conjure a vision of life and love…
Colm Toibin reviews Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Scholar finesses many views of Bard into a discernible portrait
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