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A 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 worlds greatest playwright. 23 illustrations

"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration."Dan Cryer, Newsday Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper''s), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life; full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger; could have become the world''s greatest playwright. A young man from the provincesa man without wealth, connections, or university educationmoves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an achievement to be explained? Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright''s life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. Above all, we never lose sight of the great worksA Midsummer Night''s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and morethat continue after four hundred years to delight and haunt audiences everywhere. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare''s life have been known for over a century, but now Stephen Greenblatt shows how this particular life history gave rise to the world''s greatest writer. Bringing together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare''s plays, Greenblatt makes inspired connections between the life and the works and deliver "a dazzling and subtle biography" (Richard Lacayo, Time). Readers will experience Shakespeare''s vital plays again as if for the first time, but with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2004; Time magazine''s #1 Best Nonfiction Book; A Washington Post Book World Rave ; An Economist Best Book ; A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book; A Christian Science Monitor Best Book; A Chicago Tribune Best Book; A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book ; NPR''s Maureen Corrigan''s Best. 16 pages of color illustrations

Stephen Greenblatt''''s Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare''''s life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience''''s deepest desires and fears, and by reconnecting with this historic reality we are able to experience the true character of the playwright himself. Greenblatt traces Shakespeare''''s unfolding imaginative generosity - his ability to inhabit others, to confer upon them his own strength of spirit, to make them truly live as independent beings as no other artist has ever done.Digging deep into the vital links between the playwright and his world, Will in the World provides the fullest account ever written of the living, breathing man behind the masterpieces.

Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper''s), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life; full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger; could have become the world''s greatest playwright. Bringing together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare''s plays, Greenblatt makes inspired connections between the life and the works and delivers "a dazzling and subtle biography" (Richard Lacayo, Time). Readers will experience Shakespeare''s vital plays again as if for the first time, but with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity.A best book of the year: The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2004; Time magazine''s #1 Best Nonfiction Book; A Washington Post Book World Rave ; An Economist Best Book ; A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book; A Christian Science Monitor Best Book; A Chicago Tribune Best Book; A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book ; NPR''s Maureen Corrigan''s Best.

The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commercial world, for the theatre company in which he was a shareholder had to draw some 1,500 to 2,000 paying customers a day into the round wooden walls of the playhouse to stay afloat and competition from rival companies was fierce. The key was not so much topicality - with government censorship and with repertory companies recycling the same scripts for years. Instead, Shakespeare had to engage with the deepest desires and fears of his audience. WILL IN THE WORLD is about an amazing success story that has resisted explanation: it aims to be the first fully satisfying account of Shakespeare's character and the blossoming of his talent. There have, of course, been many biographies of Shakespeare. The problem each one faces is the thin amount of material surrounding his life. They lead us through the available traces but leave us no closer to understanding how the playwright's astonishing achievements came about. The real-world sources of Shakespeare's language - of his fantasies, passions, fears, and desires - lie outside the scope of these earlier books. WILL IN THE WORLD will set out to recover the links between Shakespeare and his world and with them to construct a full and vital portrait of the man. Its purpose is to know the magician himself, as well as his magic tricks, and to experience the touch of the real. It is a journey that centres on the perils and pleasures of Shakespeare's unfolding imaginative generosity - his ability to enter into others, to confer upon them his own strength of spirit, to make them live and breathe as independent beings as no other artist who ever lived has done.

Part biography, part history, part intimate family saga, Wilkie Collins brings to life one of England''s greatest writers against the backdrop of Victorian London and all its complexities. It is a truly sensational story.1868, and bestselling author Wilkie Collins is hard at work on a new detective novel, The Moonstone. But he is weighed down by a mountain of problems - his own sickness, the death of his mother, and, most pressing, the announcement by his live-in mistress that she has tired of his relationship with another woman and intends to marry someone else. His solution is to increase his industrial intake of opium and knuckle down to writing the book T. S. Eliot called the ''greatest'' English detective novel.Of Wilkie''s domestic difficulties, not a word to the outside world: indeed, like his great friend Charles Dickens, he took pains to keep secret any detail of his menage. There''s no doubt that the arrangement was unusual and, for Wilkie, precarious, particularly since his own books focused on uncovering such deeply held family secrets. Indeed, he was the master of the Victorian sensation novel, fiction that left readers on the edge of their seats as mysteries and revelations abounded.In this colourful investigative portrait, Andrew Lycett draws Wilkie Collins out from the shadow of Charles Dickens. Wilkie is revealed as a brilliant, witty, friendly, contrary and sensual man, deeply committed to his work. Here he is given his rightful place at the centre of the literary, artistic and historical movements of his age.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt Y El Estudio Filosófico De Las Lenguas Donatella Di Cesare El lector atento descubrirá en el excelente trabajo de la profesora Donatella Di Cesare el vuelco lingüístico de Wilhel

Luis Antonio de Villena ofrece una síntesis que quiere ser total de este fascinante personaje, describiendo todos los aspectos que conforman el rico mundo wildeano. El tomo se cierra con una bibliiog

''La mujer debe tener pasado, el hombre debe tener futuro'' es una de las frescas que se le atribuyen a Oscar Wilde, entre muchas otras sobre la ética y la estética, el arte, el sexo...El libro presenta una sintesis de este fascinante personaje adjuntando una bibliografia esencial y una cronologia.

Me ha ocurrido con insólita frecuencia, que muchos traductores, versionistas o estudiosos de Oscar Wilde, se hayan dirigido a mí para conocer mi opinión sobre su trabajo, como si yo tuviese un contacto ultraterreno con el propio Oscar (cosa de viejos amigos)

"At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington state - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet. Strayed's account captures the agonies - both mental and physical - of her incredible journey; how it maddened and terrified her, and how, ultimately, it healed her. Wild is a brutal memoir of survival, grief and redemption: a searing portrayal of life at its lowest ebb and at its highest tide."

En este volumen se presenta un estudio sobre cómo se integran en el entorno profesional de la traducción distintas herramientas y recursos, entre los cuales se presta especial atención a Wikipedia. La introduccion en los flujos de la traduccion experta de Wikipedia y de otros productos tecnologicos (el buscador de contenido e imagenes de Google, las herramientas de traduccion automatica y asistida, los diccionarios electronicos, los gestores de corpus, etc.) ha suscitado interesantes dinamicas de resistencia y acomodacion, asi como cuestionamientos eticos y profesionales en los ultimos veinte años. En esta obra se da cuenta de todo ello con un enfoque hermeneutico. Con este fin, se realiza una revision teorica critica e interdisciplinar sobre Wikipedia, asi como un estudio empirico de narrativas para conocer la percepcion de los profesionales de la traduccion.

El llibre fa un recull de les moltes innova-cions socials i tecnològiques que ja trobem arreu del món i que ens obren les portes a canvis radicals en l"organització social. S"endinsa en l"Economia Al

Der Autor schildert in seiner Geschichte, Trauer und Verlustangste, sowie Gewalt und Tod. Niemand horte, als sie schrien... Ein einsames Haus tief im Wald. Zwei Jungen, gerade erst Teenager, in der Gewalt zweier Menschen, die vorgeben, ihre Eltern zu sein. Ein grausames Martyrium, das Spuren in die jungen Seelen brennt und sie fur immer pragen wird. Als Dennis und Lars die Flucht gelingt, scheint ein Neuanfang moglich. Doch die Vergangenheit holt sie unbarmherzig ein. In dem kleinen, verlassenen Haus treffen die Bruder wieder aufeinander - und die Situation eskaliert. Wahrenddessen betet Rouven um das Leben seiner geliebten Frau Katrin. Wie soll er ihrem gemeinsamen Sohn Kai nur erklaren, dass seine Mama sterben wird? Noch ahnt er nicht, dass seine "kleine Taube" auch ein dunkles Geheimnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit hat...

Es begann alles ganz harmlos. Doch als Bodo K. aus seinem Mittagsschlaf auf dem Monte Baldo erwachte, war nichts mehr wie zuvor.Die Welt sollte eine andere werden.

An explosive story from the mad genius behind Chainsaw Man and Look Back

In this exciting new introduction to Shakespeare, Catherine Belsey takes traditional tales as a starting point to argue against the cultural materialists who claim Shakespeare's iconic status is no more than an accident of history. Each chapter shows how one of Shakespeare's best-known plays retells with a difference stories familiar both then and now. Belsey goes on to put forward new readings, teasing out the enigmas that constitute these texts and the interpretations they have inspired.