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Stephen Greenblatt

Author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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Stephen Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. He is the author of Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965); Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980); Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (1990); Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992); The Norton Shakespeare (1997); Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004); Shakespeare's Freedom (2010); and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011). (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Swerve: How the World Became Modern… (more)
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Works by Stephen Greenblatt
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3,337 copies, 135 reviews
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare 3,270 copies, 58 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume 1 (A, B,… 1,020 copies, 3 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume 2 (D, E,… 653 copies, 1 review
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve 382 copies, 13 reviews
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics 371 copies, 10 reviews
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare 369 copies, 2 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume D: The Romantic Period 363 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume E: The Victorian Age 333 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume C 311 copies, 1 review
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Single-Volume 8th Edition) 297 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume F: The Twentieth… 290 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. B 258 copies, 2 reviews
Hamlet in Purgatory 246 copies
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World 234 copies, 2 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume A (Editor) 213 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume A: The Middle Ages 178 copies, 1 review
The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Tragedies (Editor) 174 copies, 2 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume C (Editor) 168 copies
The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Comedies (Editor) 153 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume E (Editor) 153 copies
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in… 151 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume D (Editor) 138 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume F (Editor) 130 copies
The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Histories (Editor) 123 copies
The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Romances and Poems 118 copies
Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection… (Editor) 117 copies
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture 113 copies
Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American… 87 copies
The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition (Second Edition) (Vol.… (Editor) 82 copies
Shakespeare's Freedom (The Rice University Campbell Lectures) 81 copies
The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition: Essential Plays / The… 75 copies
The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition (Second Edition) (Vol.… (Editor) 72 copies, 1 review
Representing the English Renaissance (Representations Books) 41 copies
Allegory and Representation 36 copies
New world encounters 33 copies
Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto 23 copies
The Greenblatt Reader 22 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. B (Eight Edition) 14 copies
Sir Walter Ralegh (Study in English) 9 copies
The Norton Shakespeare (Third Edition) (Vol. Four-Volume Set) 9 copies
New Historicism : Literaturgeschichte als Poetik der Kultur 6 copies
Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell and Huxley (College) 6 copies
Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare… 3 copies
Poetyka kulturowa : pisma wybrane 3 copies
Shakespeare Olmak 2 copies
Was ist Literaturgeschichte? (edition suhrkamp) 2 copies
The Norton Shakespeare (Third Edition) (Vol. Two Volume Set) 2 copies
A Grande Mudança Origem e história do pensamento moderno 1 copy
Die Erfindung der Intoleranz: Wie die Christen von Verfolgten zu… 1 copy
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Seventh edition volume one 1 copy
جهان چگونه مدرن شد؟ 1 copy
'Who killed Marlowe?' in AFR, 5 May 2006 [review of David Riggs' 'World of… 1 copy
Παρέγκλισις. Ο Λουκρήτιος και οι απαρχές… 1 copy
Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and Its Subversion, "Henry IV"… 1 copy
παρέγκλισις Ο ΛΟΥΚΡΗΤΙΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΑΠΑΡΧΕΣ… 1 copy
Stephen Greenblatt / Shakespearean Negotiations The Circulation of Social… 1 copy
Norton Anthology English Literature Volume a- Middle Ages (9th, 12) by… 1 copy
The York Play of the Crucifixion 1 copy, 1 review
Scholarly Publishing and the Dream of the Imperial Message: On the… 1 copy
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 1 copy
Representations (Winter 1995 Number 49) 1 copy
Power of Forms in the English Renaissance 1 copy
English 124c: Shakespearean conjuring (sourcebook) 1 copy
Will in the World - Proposal for Publication 1 copy
'How It Must Have Been' in NYRB 56/17, 5 Nov 2009 [review of Hilary… 1 copy
The Uncoupling 1 copy
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 8th (eighth) edition… 1 copy
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. B 8th (eighth) edition… 1 copy
'On the heinous crime of self-pollution' in NYRB 2004 1 copy
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Restoration and the 18th… 1 copy
Die Erfindung der Intoleranz: Wie die Christen von Verfolgten zu… 1 copy
By Stephen Greenblatt - The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Middle… 1 copy
Ascesa e caduta di Adamo ed Eva 1 copy
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Editor, some editions) 30,134 copies, 167 reviews
Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall (New York Review Books Classics) (Editor, some editions) 216 copies, 3 reviews
Criticism: Major Statements (Contributor) 209 copies
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors, vol. B (Editor) 95 copies
Staging the Renaissance (Contributor) 75 copies
Reynard the Fox: A New Translation (Foreword, some editions) 68 copies
A New History of Early English Drama (Foreword, some editions) 52 copies, 1 review
The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond (Representations Books) (Contributor) 32 copies
Shakespeare in Our Time: A Shakespeare Association of America Collection (Contributor) 13 copies
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Greenblatt, Stephen Jay
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1943-11-07
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male
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USA
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Birthplace
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Places of residence
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Education
Yale University (B.A. | 1964 | Ph.D | 1969)
Pembroke College, Cambridge (M.Phil. | 1966)
Occupations
professor
literary critic
scholar
Relationships
Targoff, Ramie (wife)
Agents
Jill Kneerim
Organizations
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Awards and honors
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987)
American Philosophical Society (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008)
James Russell Lowell Prize (1989 and 2011)
Erasmus Institute Prize (2002)
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Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University as well as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He is the General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. He divided his tme between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont. [from The Swerve (2011)
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