Stephen Greenblatt

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Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, he is the author of nine books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. He has edited six collections of criticism, is the co-author (with Charles Mee) of a play, Cardenio, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. He honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for Shakespearean Negoti...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 8,318 ratings · 893 reviews · 30 distinct works

	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.79 avg rating — 2,140 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare 3.90 avg rating — 2,143 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century 4.12 avg rating — 2,160 ratings — published 1962 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century by Stephen Greenblatt (editor), James Simpson (Editor), Jon Stallworthy (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 979 ratings — published 1962 — 32 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol D: The Romantic Period by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), Deidre Shauna Lynch, James Simpson (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol E: The Victorian Age by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), Catherine Robson, James Simpson (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare 4.14 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol C: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), James Noggle, James Simpson (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol F: The Twentieth Century & After by Stephen Greenblatt (editor), Jahan Ramazani, James Simpson (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Hamlet in Purgatory 3.89 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“Poems are difficult to silence.”
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“The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.”
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