Book cover for Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time by Garry Wills

Making Make-Believe Real

Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time

Garry Wills
2015 Released
424 Pages
7-10 Hours
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Yale University PressISBN 9780300212716
A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power

Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to mak

Garry Wills

GARRY WILLS, a distinguished historian and critic, is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, and the best-selling Why I Am a Catholic. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he has won many awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is a history professor emeritus at Northwestern University.

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