Stephen J. Greenblatt
Websites : Stephen Greenblatt at Harvard University, StephenGreenblatt.com
Stephen J. Greenblatt is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Stephen J. Greenblatt
John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. Author of Will in the World, The Swerve, and others; general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition.
Primary Contributions (1)
Elizabeth I was the queen of England (1558–1603) during a period, often called the Elizabethan Age, when England asserted itself vigorously as a major European power in politics, commerce, and the arts. Although her small kingdom was threatened by grave internal divisions, Elizabeth’s blend of…
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Publications (2)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (April 2016)
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.\nA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy,...
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (September 2012)
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in...
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