Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has...See more
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has edited seven collections of literary criticism . See less
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Stephen Greenblatt book reviews
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Review of 17th century volume (volume C) only
by jane, Jan 26, 2022
This review is only of one volume of the series;the volume covering the 17th and early 18th centuries. The intro is the only part I have read and its great. Definitely want to start on the text ... Read More
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Still Reading
by Joel S, Aug 16, 2015
I'm not finished, so this review is based on partial experience.
This is a fascinating topic and well worth studying. I have a complaint, which is common to books of history aimed at nontechnical ... Read More
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Will in the World a Must Read
If you read the accolades of the research and writing of Stephen Greenblatt's 'Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare', they pretty much tell it all. If you love to read Shakespeare, ... Read More