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Stephen Greenblatt
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Stephen Greenblatt

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Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning.

He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has edited seven collections of literary criticism.

Books by Stephen Greenblatt

The Swerve

A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.

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Tyrant

An exploration of power in the plays of William Shakespeare that sheds light on our most urgent contemporary dilemmas.

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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Greenblatt tackles the origins of humanity through the most enduring story of all time.

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