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  • Dark Renaissance

    The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    National Bestseller**A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Kirkus Reviews, The Economist, The New Yorker, Library Journal, BookPage, Christian Science Monitor, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2025“A rigorous and sparkling exploration of what makes an artist. Essential and addictive reading.” —Maggie O'Farrell, author of HamnetPoor boy. Spy. Transgressor. G... ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $13.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Marvelous Possessions

    The Wonder of the New World

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "A marvelous book . . . a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'the wonder of the New World.'" —Anthony Pagden, Times Literary SupplementPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorA masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Dark Renaissance

    The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    Poor boy. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world of government censorship and religious authoritarianism comes an ambitious cobbler’s son from Canterbury with a daring desire to be known—and ... Read more

    Was $24.99 USD Now $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Swerve

    How the World Became Modern

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Renowned historian Stephen Greenblatt's works shoot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. With The Swerve, Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. "More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare's Freedom

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "analysis of both Shakespeare and the Renaissance is informative and often original" ( Financial Times ).Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes—of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tyrant

    Shakespeare on Politics

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    **"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." —Philip RothWorld-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.**Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen 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 ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sir Walter Ralegh

    The Renaissance Man and His Roles

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Explorer, soldier, statesman, writer, key to the English Renaissance—Sir Walter Ralegh fashioned his life as a work of art.Exposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age. The interplay between life and art animated both his actions and his writing, and his dramatic life was his masterpiece. From the grim Tower ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

    The Story That Created Us

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    **“Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read.” —Jack Miles, author of God: A BiographyDaring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity.**The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Hamlet in Purgatory

    Expanded Edition

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution--as well as a capacious new reading of the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD