Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England / Edition 1

by Stephen Greenblatt

Overview

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520061606
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/14/1989
Series:	The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics , #4
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	205
Sales rank:	798,303
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Stephen Greenblatt is The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hometown:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

November 7, 1943

Place of Birth:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Education:

B.A., Yale University, 1964; B.A., Cambridge University, 1966; Ph.D., Yale University, 1969

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Texts

1. The Circulation of Social Energy
2. Invisible Bullets
3· Fiction and Friction
4· Shakespeare and the Exorcists
5· Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne

Notes
Index