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 MarloweâââShakespeareâs contemporary, inspiration, and rival.
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Nominated for this yearâs National Book Award for nonfiction, ââThe Swerveâ has a subtitle claiming a vast subject area, but Greenblatt wisely concentrates his focus upon Lucretiusâ marvelous work and the adventures of Poggio Bracciolini.
Stephen Greenblatt chronicles the unlikely discovery of Lucretiusâ poem ââOn the Nature of Thingsââââby a 15th-century Italian book huntâŚ
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A wizard of a storyteller, Greenblatt combines prodigious historical research and encyclopedic knowledge to conjure a vision of life and loveâŚ
Colm Toibin reviews Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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