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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Pulitzer Prize winner
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Shakespeare scholar ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in English literature ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Holberg Prize
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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 ⓘ |
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National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern"
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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
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University of Cambridge
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Greenblatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Renaissance literature
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Shakespeare studies ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ theory of New Historicism ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
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biography
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literary criticism ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary Shakespeare studies
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cultural studies ⓘ literary theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding New Historicism
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innovative readings of Shakespeare ⓘ work on Renaissance self-fashioning ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | New Historicism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Stephen Greenblatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hamlet in Purgatory
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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
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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| positionHeld | John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
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Stephen Greenblatt
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subject surface form:
New Historicism
subject surface form:
New Historicism