Title: Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright Into the Bard
Binding: Hard Cover Book Condition: Fine Jacket Condition: Fine Edition: First American Edition Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A. Walker & Company 2007 ISBN Number:0802715664 / 9780802715661
Seller ID: 002312
Fine hardcover book in fine dust jacket; never having been read and as new, the book is clean, tight, square and free of any markings; unclipped dust jacket is in similarly fine condition; book and jacket protected by newly applied Brodart clear cover; 306 pages including index and bibliography; illustrated with black & white photographs. A wonderful historical narrative that begins with Shakespeare's death and relates how actors, literary critics, scholars, teachers, as well as the circumstances of history, transformed this moderately successful provincial playwright into the genius of English literature.