![]() ![]() Shakespeare is not Hamlet, Lear or Benedict-though, of course, he is also, in a real sense, all three. ![]() ![]() But any biographer is left scratching for much more than that-apart, of course, from adducing what can be read of the man's characters from his work (an enterprise fraught with danger). We know about the petty business dealings, the death of his son, his career as a man of the theatre, and (of course) the seemingly contemptuous bequeath to Anne Hathaway of his ‘second best bed’. Why should we read Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World? There have been innumerable biographies of William Shakespeare, but the greatest of all writers remains the great unknowable. ![]()
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