Will in the World

斯蒂芬·格林布兰特，著名的文学批评家、理论家，当代西方学术界新历史主义批语流派的泰斗级人物，近二十年来最有影响力的莎学家之一。现任哈佛大学人文学教授、美国艺术与科学学院成员。2000年，被哈佛大学校长任命为John Cogan学院教授，系哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉，仅有19名哈佛教授获此殊荣，专门从事跨越传统学科界限的前沿性学术研究。作者获得哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉时，正在从事两个研究项目，本书就是其中一个项目的研究成果。曾在牛津大学、柏林大学、东京大学、北京大学等世界知名大学任客座教授。曾发表几十篇学术论文，出版十余部学术著作，并多次获奖。他在莎学方面的代表作有《文艺复兴时期的自我塑造——从莫尔到莎士比亚》（1980）、《莎士比亚式的协商：文艺复兴时期英国的社会能量的流通》（1988）等等。2004年出版即荣登《纽约时报》十佳图书榜的《俗世威尔——莎士比亚新传》是他最新的莎学研究成果，该书出版后引起很大反响，好评如潮。

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Stephen Greenblatt

页数:386

出版时间:2004-9-17

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780393050578

图书标签:ShakespeareGreenblatt莎士比亚英文原版新历史主义传记文学biography

"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration."—Dan Cryer, Newsday Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's ), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life; full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger; could have become the world's greatest playwright. A young man from the provinces—a man without wealth, connections, or university education—moves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an achievement to be explained?

Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. Above all, we never lose sight of the great works— A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth , and more—that continue after four hundred years to delight and haunt audiences everywhere. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare's life have been known for over a century, but now Stephen Greenblatt shows how this particular life history gave rise to the world's greatest writer. Bringing together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare's plays, Greenblatt makes inspired connections between the life and the works and deliver "a dazzling and subtle biography" (Richard Lacayo, Time ). Readers will experience Shakespeare's vital plays again as if for the first time, but with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity.

A Best Book of the Year : The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2004; Time magazine's #1 Best Nonfiction Book; A Washington Post Book World Rave ; An Economist Best Book ; A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book;A Christian Science Monitor Best Book; A Chicago Tribune Best Book; A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book ; NPR's Maureen Corrigan's Best. 16 pages of color illustrations

读后感

想象中的莎士比亚 --读《俗世威尔》 今年4月21日，传说中莎士比亚生日的前两天，我到了他的故乡埃文河畔的斯特拉福德。埃文河缓缓流过，游船在岸边停歇，天鹅在水上交配，这风景跟三百多年前似乎没有什么两样。我参观了莎士比亚出生的那栋房子，这房子已经几经转手，莎翁的...  

“俗世威尔”这个译名和《莎翁情史》有异曲同工之妙——都把一个近乎神明的莎翁拉到了喧嚣扰攘的尘世，和贩夫走卒之类的民众发生了审美趣味上的同一性。这反倒贴切：斯蒂芬•格林布拉特并没有把莎士比亚奉若神明，也不想给他写一本福音书。虽然格氏对莎士比亚之独钟，使得他...  

莎士比亚全集双页扉页的一边是本琼森的建议：“读者阁下，看他的书，别看他的画像。”另一边是大家熟知的莎士比亚肖像，貌不惊人，环状领上顶着一颗秃顶的脑袋。 琼森也不由自主地论及莎士比亚其人：他不会用拉丁语或古希腊语写作；他热衷于结交权贵；他文笔不通。 莎士比亚...

《俗世威尔》的英文原名为“Will in the world”，一语双关，“Will”既是莎翁大名William的爱称——就是小名——又具有“欲望，愿望”的含义。事实上作者和相当一部分莎学研究者一样，相信这位最伟大的戏剧家，永恒的文学巨匠，当年只不过是一个大俗人。爱财，吝啬，发家...  

一个小镇青年，家境一般，没上过大学，却在20来岁迁居伦敦后迅速发达——他编写戏剧以娱乐市井大众，吟赋诗歌来取悦上层权贵，一跃成为当时甚至延续至今英国最伟大的剧作家和诗人。这就是莎士比亚。但在他由外省青年飞跃为上流文人的那段日子里，究竟发生了什么，我们找不到任...  

用户评价

貌似译成俗世威尔，可否译成威尔在世间呢？

翻过

my kind of morning leisure fun...going home! the felicity and the force! what fun

充满想象力地阐释历史，扎根史料的深情。

New historicism on Shakespeare, don’t know to what extent I’m convinced by this critical theory