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    Stephen Greenblatt

    Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize, for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Arcadia—Accademia Letteraria Italiana.

    Stephen Greenblatt

    Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize, for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Arcadia—Accademia Letteraria Italiana.

    Awards

    Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2005

    Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2004

    Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2018

    Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2018

    Books by Stephen Greenblatt

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

      Stephen Greenblatt, Aarthi Vadde, Jahan Ramazani

      Eleventh Edition, Volume F, Paperback, 2024

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Julie Crawford, James Noggle, James Simpson

      Shorter Eleventh Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2024

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Rachel Ablow, Eric Eisner, Aarthi Vadde, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Catherine Robson, Jahan Ramazani

      Shorter Eleventh Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2024

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Crawford, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, James Simpson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Noggle

      Eleventh Edition, Package 1: Volumes A, B, C, Paperback, 2024

      A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Rachel Ablow, Eric Eisner, Aarthi Vadde, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Catherine Robson, Jahan Ramazani

      Eleventh Edition, Volumes D, E, & F, Paperback, 2024

      A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Rachel Ablow, Julie Crawford, Eric Eisner, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, Aarthi Vadde, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Catherine Robson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Jahan Ramazani, James Noggle, James Simpson

      Shorter Eleventh Edition, Volumes 1 & 2, Paperback, 2024

      A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

      Stephen Greenblatt, James Simpson, Julie Orlemanski, Tiffany Stern, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Julie Crawford, James Noggle, Courtney Weiss Smith

      Eleventh Edition, Volumes A, B, & C, E Book

      A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Rachel Ablow, Eric Eisner, Aarthi Vadde, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Catherine Robson, Jahan Ramazani

      Eleventh Edition, Volumes D, E, & F, E Book

      A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

    • Reynard the Fox: A New Translation

      James Simpson, Stephen Greenblatt

      Hardback, 2015

      Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.

    • Reynard the Fox: A New Translation

      James Simpson, Stephen Greenblatt

      E Book, 2015

      Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.

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