Stephen Greenblatt

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Read Next

William Shakespeare

The Death of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. c 1907

What Did Shakespeare Sound Like?

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

Scene from the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey (Juliet) and Leonard Whiting (Romeo), 1968; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

All the World’s a Stage: 6 Places in Shakespeare, Then and Now

Discover

Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

Hemp (Cannabis sativa).

9 Mind-Altering Plants

Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

Stephen Greenblatt: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	Stephen Jay Greenblatt
Born	November 7, 1943 (age 81) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Holberg Prize (2016)
Notable Works	“Hamlet in Purgatory” • “Practicing New Historicism” • “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”
Subjects Of Study	William Shakespeare

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Japanese author

Edmond Malone

Edmond Malone

British scholar and editor

Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Charles Cowden Clarke

English editor and critic

Richard White

American writer and critic

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin

Ludwig Tieck

German writer

Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles

Charles Lamb

British author

Georg Brandes, 1866

Georg Brandes

Danish writer

Otto Ludwig

German writer

Dover Wilson

British scholar and educator

Johann Elias Schlegel

German author and critic

Alexander Dyce

Scottish editor

Dowden

Edward Dowden

Irish critic

A.C. Bradley

British critic and scholar

George Steevens

English Shakespearean commentator

Delia Salter Bacon

American author

Henry Clay Folger.

Henry Clay Folger

American lawyer and business executive