Stephen Greenblatt is an accomplished American author and professor, best known for his contributions to literary criticism and theory. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 7, 1943, but grew up in nearby Newton. Greenblatt received his Ph.D. from Yale and currently holds the position of Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. In addition to his academic role, he serves as the General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Greenblatt is widely regarded as one of the founders of New Historicism, a critical approach that emphasizes the cultural, political, and social contexts of literary works. He often refers to this method as "cultural poetics" and has been a major influence in the field since introducing the term in the early 1980s. Greenblatt has written and edited numerous books, articles, and collections of criticism, primarily focusing on new historicism, culture, Renaissance studies, and Shakespeare studies. He is also a co-founder of the literary-cultural journal Representations.
Throughout his career, Greenblatt has received various honors and awards, including the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for "Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England," the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Philosophical Society. In 2016, Greenblatt was named the Holberg Prize Laureate in recognition of his outstanding work in the humanities. His most popular book, "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare," spent nine weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. Greenblatt currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
Art History Books
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The Swerve
2011
Stephen Greenblatt Biographies
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Three Modern Satirists
1965
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Will in the World
2004
Stephen Greenblatt Literary Books
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning
1981
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Shakespearean Negotiations
1988
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Representing the English Renaissance
1988
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Learning to Curse
1990
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Marvelous Possessions
1991
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Redrawing the Boundaries
1992
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New World Encounters
1993
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Practicing New Historicism
2000
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The Greenblatt Reader
2004
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Cultural Mobility
2009
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Shakespeare's Freedom
2010
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Tyrant
2018
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Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles by Greenblatt Stephen J. Hardcover
2021
Plays
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The Norton Shakespeare
1972
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Hamlet in Purgatory
2001
Religious Books
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
2017
Norton Anthology of English Literature Books (with)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature with Jane Eyre
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
1962
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century
1962
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors
1962
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Revised, Volume 2
1968
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Packaged With Hard Times
1968
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. B: The Sixteenth Century & The Early Seventeenth Century
1986
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Norton Anthology of English Literature, Course Guide
1988
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. D: The Romantic Period
1999
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. E: The Victorian Age
1999
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. A: Middle Ages
1999
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. F: The Twentieth Century & After
1999
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Norton Anthology Of English Literature: Media Companion
2000
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. C: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
2005
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols C, D & E
2006
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
2012
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Major Authors, Vol. 2
2013
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Major Authors, Vol.1
2013
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages