Stephen Jay Greenblatt

AmericanHistoryb. 1943

Stephen Greenblatt is an American literary historian and author, and a leading scholar of Renaissance literature, particularly the works of William Shakespeare. He is credited with establishing New Historicism, a method of literary criticism that interprets literature based on its historical and cultural context. Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and has served as the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Awards

['National Book Award for Nonfiction (2011)', 'Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2012)', 'Holberg Prize Laureate (2016)', "MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize", 'William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre', 'Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation', 'Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University (2010)', 'Erasmus Institute Prize (2002)', 'Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley', 'John Addison Porter Prize, Yale University (1969)']

Notable Works

['The Swerve: How the World Became Modern', 'Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare', 'Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England', 'Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare', 'Hamlet in Purgatory', 'The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve', 'Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics']