Renaissance Self-fashioning: More to Shakespeare - Hardcover

Greenblatt, Stephen J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226306534 ISBN 13: 9780226306537

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1980

Synopsis

"A book which no one concerned with Western culture in or since the Renaissance should miss."--Richard Strier, Boundary 2

About this title

Review:

"One day we were teaching Renaissance literature to small groups of somewhat bored students, the next "Renaissance Self-Fashioning "had appeared, and suddenly studying the Renaissance was all the rage, exciting and new. Stephen Greenblatt's book entirely altered the critical landscape-showing with compelling lucidity that social anthropology and psychoanalysis were essential tools for understanding Renaissance writing. I can't think of any other critical work since T. S. Eliot to have made that kind of impact."

About the Author:

Stephen Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including, with Catherine Gallagher, Practicing New Historicism, published by the University of Chicago Press, and the recent Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0226306534
• ISBN 13: 9780226306537
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272