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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 Shakespeare

      Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Gordon McMullan, Suzanne Gossett

      Third International Student Edition, Paperback, 2015

      In both an enhanced digital edition—the first edited specifically for undergraduates—and a handsome print volume, The Norton Shakespeare, third edition, provides a freshly edited text, acclaimed...

    • The Norton Shakespeare: The Essential Plays / The Sonnets

      Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Suzanne Gossett, Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Gordon McMullan

      Third Edition, Paperback, 2015

      Both an enhanced digital edition—the first edited specifically for undergraduates—and a handsome print volume, The Norton Shakespeare, third edition, provides a freshly edited text, acclaimed...

    • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

      Stephen Greenblatt

      Anniversary Edition, Paperback, 2016

      Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time

      The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

    • The Norton Shakespeare

      Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Gordon McMullan, Suzanne Gossett

      Third International Student Edition, Ebook Folder, 2015

      Both an enhanced digital edition—the first edited specifically for undergraduates—and a handsome print volume, The Norton Shakespeare, Third Edition, provides a freshly edited text, acclaimed...

    • The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

      Stephen Greenblatt

      Hardback, 2017

      Stephen Greenblatt—Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World—investigates the life of one of humankind’s greatest stories.

    • Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

      Stephen Greenblatt

      Hardback, 2018

      World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt

      Tenth Edition, A, Paperback, 2018

      A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt

      Tenth Edition, B, Paperback, 2018

      A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt

      Tenth Edition, C, Paperback, 2018

      A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt

      Tenth Edition, D, Paperback, 2018

      A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field.

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