The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
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First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.Stephen Greenblatt
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
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But if it doesn't have pleasure and interest, then it does not have life. And the same must be true about writing about literature.
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I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!
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the heads on the pikes may have spoken to him on the day he entered London - and he may well have heeded their warning.
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But I wanted to make a claim the claim here is that life is actually compelling and that Shakespeare's life is what he principally had to work with.
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