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Stephen Greenblatt

Born

in Boston, The United States

November 07, 1943

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History, Literary Criticism

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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 · 76,391 ratings · 6,625 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 35,066 ratings — published 2011 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare 3.87 avg rating — 10,788 ratings — published 2004 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics 4.11 avg rating — 2,730 ratings — published 2018 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), Jean E. Howard, William Shakespeare 4.56 avg rating — 2,117 ratings — published 1972 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us 3.93 avg rating — 1,668 ratings — published 2017 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tragedies by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), Walter Cohen (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor) 4.48 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 1623 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comedies (The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition) 4.35 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 1623 — 231 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival 4.05 avg rating — 608 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare 4.08 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 1981 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hamlet in Purgatory 3.91 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2001 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Stephen Greenblatt

Norton Anthology of English Literature (33 books)
by

Stephen Greenblatt (Editor),

M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor)

4.15 avg rating — 18,785 ratings

The Norton Shakespeare (8 books)
by

Stephen Greenblatt (Editor),

William Shakespeare,

Walter Cohen (Editor),

Jean E. Howard (Editor),

Katharine Eisaman Maus (Editor)

4.49 avg rating — 3,998 ratings

Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt (?)

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

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“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.”
― Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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“Poems are difficult to silence.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

tags: censorship, poems, poetry, silence, suppression

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What book about the Tudors or their world would you like for our Group Read in December 2025?

The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty by Tracy Borman

13 votes, 50.0%

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt

3 votes, 11.5%

Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess

3 votes, 11.5%

Arthur Plantagenet: Henry VIII's Illegitimate Uncle by Sarah-Beth Watkins

2 votes, 7.7%

Brandon: Tudor Knight by Tony Riches

2 votes, 7.7%

Je Anne Boleyn: Struck with the Dart of Love by Sandra Vasoli

1 vote, 3.8%

The Secrets of Saffron Hall by Clare Marchant

1 vote, 3.8%

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law by Christine Hartweg

1 vote, 3.8%

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