Abstract: In Will in the World:How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare，Greenblatt uses selffashioning theory as a clue to aggregate a variety of materials，and explore the inner world of Shakespeare. By focusing on the authority and other in the circles of writers and in the whole world，Greenblatt explains Shakespeare’s selffashioning through the interaction between the two. Starting from the poaching incident，Greenblatt explores Shakespeare’s attitude to the authority，and discusses Shakespeare’s selffashioning strategies and the variety and complexity of the them，which not only reveals the process of Shakespeare’s selffashioning，the progress of his mind，but innovates the techniques of biography writing.

Key words: selffashioning, Shakespeare, Greenblatt, interaction