Stephen Greenblatt

Un libro que obtuvo el prestigioso National Book Award en 2011 y el Premio Pulitzer en 2012. Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos

El retrato definitivo sobre la vida y el legado del dramaturgo más influyente de la literatura universal. A lo largo de los siglos, William Shakespeare ha sido reconocido como uno de los autores más

El nuevo libro de Stephen Greenblatt, autor de El giro, arroja luz a la enigmática figura de Christopher Marlowe, el genio del Renacimiento inglés que rivalizó con el mismo Shakespeare.Pobre, espía, transgresor, genio. Stephen Greenblatt, el autor de El giro, revela la vida fascinante y subversiva de Christopher Marlowe, inspiracion y rival de Shakespeare.En una Inglaterra isabelina asfixiada por la represion, la censura y el miedo, el hijo de un zapatero de Canterbury logro escapar de su destino a traves de las palabras. Dotado de un oido prodigioso para la poesia en latin que le abriria las puertas hacia la imaginacion visionaria, la belleza, el deseo transgresor y un escepticismo peligroso, Marlowe encabezo una explosion espectacular en la literatura, la lengua y la cultura inglesas que allanaria el camino al exito de muchos otros, incluido su joven colaborador William Shakespeare.Con una prosa agil y deslumbrante, Stephen Greenblatt, autor ganador del Pulitzer y referente absoluto en estudios literarios, reconstruye la turbulenta vida de Marlowe y la trascendencia de su obra, desde sus traducciones eroticas de Ovidio, hasta Tamerlan el Grande y Doctor Fausto. Al mismo tiempo, explora como las personas que rodearon a Marlowe, y las transformaciones que impulsaron, dieron origen al poder economico, cientifico y cultural del mundo moderno.

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One 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. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretiusa beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson. 16 pages of color illustrations

"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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.