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A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud   “A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . ...

Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism. This Reader makes available in one volume Greenblatt’s most imp...

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wi...

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from wh...

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from wh...

"Renaissance Self-Fashioning" is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt e...

For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New His...

'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader – a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant – come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold o...

For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New His...

In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and hi...

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve’s story that fascinates us? What does it tell us abo...