Stephen Greenblatt
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English
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Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His many books include Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He is a general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into...
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Español
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Para ayudarnos a comprender nuestros dilemas contemporáneos más urgentes, William Shakespeare no tiene igual.
Mientras Isabel I, cada vez más envejecida y obstinada, se aferraba al poder con uñas y dientes, un brillante dramaturgo exploraba las causas sociales, las raíces psicológicas y los retorcidos efectos de la tiranía. Al analizar la psique (y las psicosis) de personajes de la catadura de Ricardo III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolano y de las...
3) Adam & Ève
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Flammarion
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Français
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Cinquante lignes : telle est la modeste place qu'occupe l'histoire d'Adam et Ève dans la Bible. Pourtant, rien n'a plus durablement influencé notre conception des origines de l'homme. Ce bref épisode recèle des paradoxes prodigieux : un homme et une femme nés adultes, un serpent doué de parole, un arbre conférant la connaissance du bien et du mal... Comment cet invraisemblable récit peut-il être considéré, encore aujourd'hui, comme le miroir...
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the...
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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. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare's life have been known...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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English
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"Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish,...