William Shakespeare. Man against the backdrop of culture and literature

What is it like to be Shakespeare? Living in Elizabethan England at the sunset of the era, composing "on a hunch" without caring about glory: playing friends, rivals, patrons, fans, and in common create the greatest texts in world literature. About this and other aspects of the life and work of the most famous - and the most mysterious playwright writes in his book O. V. Razumovskaya, specialist in English literature, the author of numerous studies on Shakespeare. Without driving her readers in a longing for overly academic research, she offers fresh and full of curious details an overview of the era that gave rise to the greatest genius. Consistently recreating the details of Shakespeare"s creative and life in culture and literature, this course of lectures allows even an unprepared reader to compose a idea of ​​Shakespeare not only as an writer, but also as a person formed under the influence of a unique era - English renaissance