Stephen Greenblatt

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 feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the worlds greatest playwright. 23 illustrations

Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos alemanes en busca de manuscritos antiguos. En uno de ellos descubrió el único ejemplar que habia sobrevivido de una obra escrita en el siglo primero antes de Cristo, De rerum natura, un poema filosofico de Tito Lucrecio Caro que desarrollaba una vision materialista del mundo, destinada a liberar al hombre del temor a los dioses. Lo copio y regreso con el a Italia, donde la difusion de sus peligrosas ideas fue una de las fuentes del giro cultural del Renacimiento, que iba a dar lugar al cambio ideologico del que surgio el mundo moderno. Aquel libro ignorado, que pudo haberse perdido, ejercio una considerable influencia sobre una linea de pensadores que va de Giordano Bruno o Montaigne hasta Freud o Einstein. Stephen Greenblatt, que a su calidad de investigador une la de ser un gran escritor, nos ofrece un apasionante relato de esta aventura de las ideas.

Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos alemanes en busca de manuscritos antiguos. En uno de ellos descubrió el único ejemplar que habia sobrevivido de una obra escrita en el siglo primero antes de Cristo, De rerum natura, un poema filosofico de Tito Lucrecio Caro que desarrollaba una vision materialista del mundo, destinada a liberar al hombre del temor a los dioses. Lo copio y regreso con el a Italia, donde la difusion de sus peligrosas ideas fue una de las fuentes del giro cultural del Renacimiento, que iba a dar lugar al cambio ideologico del que surgio el mundo moderno. Aquel libro ignorado, que pudo haberse perdido, ejercio una considerable influencia sobre una linea de pensadores que va de Giordano Bruno o Montaigne hasta Freud o Einstein. Stephen Greenblatt, que a su calidad de investigador une la de ser un gran escritor, nos ofrece un apasionante relato de esta aventura de las ideas.

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 process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it. Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch.

"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration."Dan Cryer, Newsday Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper''s), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life; full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger; could have become the world''s greatest playwright. A young man from the provincesa man without wealth, connections, or university educationmoves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an achievement to be explained? Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright''s life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. Above all, we never lose sight of the great worksA Midsummer Night''s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and morethat continue after four hundred years to delight and haunt audiences everywhere. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare''s life have been known for over a century, but now Stephen Greenblatt shows how this particular life history gave rise to the world''s greatest writer. Bringing together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare''s plays, Greenblatt makes inspired connections between the life and the works and deliver "a dazzling and subtle biography" (Richard Lacayo, Time). Readers will experience Shakespeare''s vital plays again as if for the first time, but with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2004; Time magazine''s #1 Best Nonfiction Book; A Washington Post Book World Rave ; An Economist Best Book ; A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book; A Christian Science Monitor Best Book; A Chicago Tribune Best Book; A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book ; NPR''s Maureen Corrigan''s Best. 16 pages of color illustrations

Et si la Renaissance était née d''un livre ? Un livre perdu, connu par fragments, recopié par quelques moines et retrouve par un humaniste fou de manuscrits anciens ? L''idée, audacieuse, vertigineuse, ouvre les portes de l''histoire de Poggio Bracciolini, dit le Pogge, qui decouvrit une copie du De renon nanera de Lucrece dans un monastere allemand. C''etait a l''aube du XVe siecle.Le Pogge n''etait pas seulement un bibliophile passionne et un copiste hors pair. II aimait les arts et il avait ecrit des faceties grivoises. Il aimait les femmes et etait pere de dix - neuf enfants. Il n''aimait pas l''Eglise mais il etait secretaire d''un pape diaboliquement intelligent et corrompu. Ainsi s''ouvre a nous un monde inoui. celui d''une cour papale ou s''agitaient agents cupides, moines seducteurs, filous. femmes de petite vertu et humanistes d''exception: un monde a la fois severe et deprave, contraignant mais libre.En decouvrant. copiant et diffusant l''oeuvre de Lucrece, le Pogge aura leve le voile sur les temps modernes, et influence des esprits aussi puissants que Montaigne ou Machiavel. Car tout, selon Lucrece, est fait d''atonies en mouvement, qui s''entrechoquent au hasard, se separent et se rencontrent a nouveau. Telle fut l''intuition geniale du poete latin, une celebration de la danse de la matiere et un breviaire d''atheisme qui allaient bouleverser le Moyen Age finissant.Conteur ne, erudit et brillant, Stephen Greenblatt emporte le lecteur au coeur de ce Quattrocento qui fit revivre l''Antiquite pour la porter jusqu''a nous.

En aquest volum es presenten dues mirades sobre les anomenades obres historiques de William Shakespeare. Duna banda, Bales invisibles, de Stephen Greenblatt, presenta un model interpretatiu que permet una lectura original dEnric IV i Enric V, en la qual sexaminen els mecanismes de subversioi contencio del poder en les obres i en la societat de Shakespeare.I de laltra, Art i ideologia, de Salvador Oliva, defensa els valors estetics del text i posa sota judici les aproximacions ideologiques de la literatura i lart en general quan aquestes volen ser definitories del valor de lobra. El valor, segons Oliva, neix i es constitueix basicament a partir de la forma.El llibre ofereix una mirada complementaria i poliedrica al servei del lector i del coneixement de lobra de William Shakespeare.

Trad., Socorro Giménez. Contiene ilustraciones. ¿Cómo representar al otro? ¿Cómo dar contenido a sus signos sin apropiarse de ellos en el mismo gesto? Estas son las preguntas que animan el interés de Stephen Greenblatt por el encuentro entre culturas, en particular por uno de los mayores episodios de este tipo que ha conocido la humanidad, tanto por su escala geografica como por la distancia cultural que separa a sus protagonistas: el descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo. Mas alla del estudio de fuentes y registros historicos, Greenblatt despliega, en dialogo con ''La conquista de America de Todorov'', una interesante y ambiciosa reflexion sobre la relacion con el otro alrededor del concepto del asombro o la maravilla [wonder]: forma de reconocimiento a la vez que de negacion o apropiacion, la maravilla contiene tambien la posibilidad de una intermediacion o de un verdadero reconocimiento de uno mismo en el otro.

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year. The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value.

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Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics and religion. He describes Shakespeare's family life and his professional career as a working man of the theatre. He also discusses the printing and publishing of the plays, and recent developments in textual scholarship. Lastly, he considers questions affecting Shakespeare criticism. An essay by Andrew Gurr (University of Reading), on the staging of Shakespeare's plays explains, for example, how the plays were performed at the "Globe" theatre. An accompanying CD-ROM, "The Norton Shakespeare Workshop" is also available. This is the "International Student" edition.

A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare''s plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespearethe working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glossaries and annotations, and an elegant single-column page (that of the Norton Anthologies), this edition of Shakespeare invites contemporary readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh. Greenblatt''s full introduction creates a window into Shakespeare world-the culture, demographics, commerce, politics, and religion of early-modern EnglandShakespeare''s family background and professional life, the Elizabethan industries of theater and printing, and the subsequent centuries of Shakespeare textual editing.

A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare''s plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespearethe working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glossaries and annotations, and an elegant single-column page (that of the Norton Anthologies), this edition of Shakespeare invites contemporary readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh. Greenblatt''s full introduction creates a window into Shakespeare world-the culture, demographics, commerce, politics, and religion of early-modern EnglandShakespeare''s family background and professional life, the Elizabethan industries of theater and printing, and the subsequent centuries of Shakespeare textual editing.

A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare''s plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespearethe working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glossaries and annotations, and an elegant single-column page (that of the Norton Anthologies), this edition of Shakespeare invites contemporary readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh. Greenblatt''s full introduction creates a window into Shakespeare world-the culture, demographics, commerce, politics, and religion of early-modern EnglandShakespeare''s family background and professional life, the Elizabethan industries of theater and printing, and the subsequent centuries of Shakespeare textual editing.