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Article: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2005
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Written by Stephen Greenblatt Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005, ISBN: 0393050572, Hardcover, pp. 386, $39.00 CAN
Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt has written a book with a curious title. A "Note to the reader" mentions that England in the 16th century was a record-keeping society, but shows how hard it is to establish the biographical facts of its subject. The Stratford vicar John Bretchgirdle noted in his parish register the baptism of "Gullielmus filius Johannes Shakspere" on April 26, 1564. But the scholars who assumed that there was ordinarily a three-day interval between birth and baptism, and therefore have fixed the date of ...