Stephen Greenblatt

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Stephen Greenblatt is an influential American literary critic and Shakespeare scholar best known as a founder of New Historicism and a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.

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instanceOf Pulitzer Prize winner
Shakespeare scholar
human
literary critic
university professor
academicDegree PhD in English literature
awardReceived Holberg Prize NERFINISHED
James Russell Lowell Prize NERFINISHED
Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize NERFINISHED
National Book Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction NERFINISHED
awardReceivedFor National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" NERFINISHED
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" NERFINISHED
citizenship American
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1943-11-07
educatedAt Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge

Yale University
employer Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
familyName Greenblatt NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Renaissance literature
Shakespeare studies
literary criticism
theory of New Historicism
gender male
genre biography
literary criticism
non-fiction
givenName Stephen NERFINISHED
influenced contemporary Shakespeare studies
cultural studies
literary theory
knownFor founding New Historicism
innovative readings of Shakespeare
work on Renaissance self-fashioning
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement New Historicism NERFINISHED
name Stephen Greenblatt NERFINISHED
notableWork Hamlet in Purgatory NERFINISHED
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture NERFINISHED
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare NERFINISHED
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England NERFINISHED
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern NERFINISHED
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics NERFINISHED
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University NERFINISHED

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Katherine A. Rowe doctoralAdvisor Stephen Greenblatt
The New Historicism influencedBy Stephen Greenblatt
subject surface form: New Historicism
The New Historicism associatedWithScholar Stephen Greenblatt
subject surface form: New Historicism