Jay Parini, author of Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal, tagged his top ten literary biographies for the Guardian. One title on the list:Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt (2004)Read about another entry on the list.
A vast shelf of biographies of the Bard exists, but this is the book I would take with me to a desert island along with Shakespeare’s plays. It has energy and a great deal of unassertive yet far-reaching scholarship.
--Marshal Zeringue
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