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...Back then, I didn’t think that the events of Shakespeare’s life were very filmic,” Greenblatt says. “I told Marc Norman to write a screenplay on Marlowe. Shows what I know...
Will in the World, which draws on Greenblatt’s entire career of scholarship and literary analysis, took four years to plan and complete. Like his past works, the project was not without its share of obstacles. Reviews are already mixed; some laud Greenblatt for his subtle treatment of the material, others accuse him of going too far in his correlations...
...Greenblatt posits that these publicly documented events reveal the actual man who penned “the most important body of imaginative literature of the last thousand years,” yielding a new understanding of his genius...
Because he targeted both an academic audience and the general public, Greenblatt says it took careful maneuvering to balance scholarly knowledge of the bard’s life with conjectures about his experiences...
...stick only to the established known facts of Shakespeare’s life, you’re doing something that’s already been done and you don’t get very far,” Greenblatt says...