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Dark Renaissance
The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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A vibrant, modern biography of the writer, and suspected spy, Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s bolder, raunchier and more radical brother in arms, pen and ink. LONDON, LATE 16 TH CENTURY. Townhouses quickly give way to overcrowded tenements and hovels; cobblestone lanes are filled with excrement …
Tyrant
Shakespeare on Politics
Inbunden, 2018
252 kr
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As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, …
Will In The World
How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Häftad, 2016
217 kr
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Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires and fears, and by reconnecting with this …
Tyrant
Shakespeare on Politics
Häftad, 2019
149 kr
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for …
Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
Av Thomas Sir Browne, Stephen Greenblatt
Häftad, 2012
203 kr
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Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to the Romantics as well as to W.G. …
Dark Renaissance
The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
Inbunden, 2025
267 kr
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Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. This is the thrilling life-story of Christopher Marlowe: Shakespeare's greatest rival and inspiration, the writer who transformed art and culture in England forever. 'A dazzling account of a dazzling life' STEPHEN FRY’Sparkling, addictive reading' …
Dark Renaissance
The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
Häftad, 2026
165 kr
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Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.This is the extraordinary story of Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s greatest inspiration and rival. In brutally repressive Elizabethan London, artists are frightened; foreigners are suspect; crowds revel in animal fights and public executions. Into …
Will in the World
How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
223 kr
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A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and …
Swerve
How the World Became Modern
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
143 kr
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In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini, the greatest book hunter of the Renaissance. …
Swerve
How the Renaissance Began
Häftad, 2012
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
167 kr
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A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. …
Second Chances
Shakespeare and Freud
Av Stephen Greenblatt, Adam Phillips
Häftad, 2025
157 kr
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A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud “A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy.”—Rowan Williams, New Statesman In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore …
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Renaissance Man and His Roles
Häftad, 2026
220 kr
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Exposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age–focusing on his lifelong attempt to fashion his own identity as a work of art. At moments of crisis, Ralegh was always acting out a role. The interplay between life …
Practicing New Historicism
Av Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt
Häftad, 2001
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
372 kr
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For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New Historicism", two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects. In lucid and jargon-free …
Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
The Story that Created Us
Häftad, 2018
190 kr
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Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve’s story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. …
Shakespeare's Montaigne
The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
Av Michel De Montaigne, Stephen Greenblatt
Häftad, 2014
255 kr
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An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne’s best reader—a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne’s ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt …
Shakespearean Negotiations
The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
Häftad, 1990
956 kr
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Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method - he asks how collective beliefs and experiences are shaped, …
Renaissance Self-Fashioning
From More to Shakespeare
Häftad, 2005
342 kr
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"Renaissance Self-Fashioning" is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance - More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and …
Shakespeare's Freedom
Häftad, 2012
196 kr
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Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and …
Learning to Curse
Essays in Early Modern Culture
Häftad, 2007
306 kr
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Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the …
Cultural Mobility
A Manifesto
Av Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Županov m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
455 kr
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Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional …
Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
The Story That Created Us
Häftad, 2018
122 kr
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The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and …
Tyrant
Shakespeare On Power
Häftad, 2019
179 kr
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'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader – a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant – come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William …
Marvelous Possessions
The Wonder of the New World. The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures 1988
Häftad, 1992
1091 kr
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`And there I found very many islands filled with people innumerable, and of all of them I have taken possession for their highnesses, by proclamation made and with the royal standard unfurled, and no one contradicted me' - Christopher ColumbusMarvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which …
Practicing New Historicism
Av Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt
Inbunden, 2000
982 kr
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For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New Historicism", two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects. In lucid and jargon-free …
Dark Renaissance
The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Inbunden, 2025
301 kr
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In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world of government censorship and religious authoritarianism comes an ambitious …
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England Volume 4
Häftad
620 kr
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New World Encounters
Häftad, 1993
558 kr
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The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco Lopez de Gomara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter …
Representing the English Renaissance
E-bok, 1988
498 kr
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This title was originally published in 1988. This title was originally published in 1988.
New World Encounters
E-bok, 1993
589 kr
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The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter …
Cultural Mobility
A Manifesto
Av Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Županov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1156 kr
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Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional …
