Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() "Let us imagine," for instance, a personal meeting between the soon-to-be-martyred Edmund Campion and a soon-to-be-famous young man from Stratford. "Let us imagine," Greenblatt begins, promising that if we "use our own imagination" we will understand Shakespeare's. ![]() But love letters are not known for their objectivity. It deserves such praise, and I hope it outsells Harold Bloom's pompous Invention of the Human. Simon Russell Beale calls it "a love letter" to Shakespeare. Nevertheless, Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World has been greeted, in America, as an epochal achievement: lengthily and reverently reviewed in the New Yorker, excerpted in the New York Times Magazine, extravagantly praised by critics, poets, actors. ![]()
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