Resultaten voor 'stephen greenblatt'
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Dark Renaissance
Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.This is the extraordinary story of Christopher Marlowe - Shakespeare's greatest inspiration and rival.'Sparkling, addictive reading' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'A dazzling account of a dazzling life' STEPHEN FRY'Brilliant' JAMES SHAPIRO'As evocative as any novel' PHILIPPA GREGORY'Riveting' BEN ELTON** AN ECONOMIST, DAILY EXPRESS AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 **In brutally repressive Elizabethan London, artists are frightened; foreigners are suspect; crowds revel in animal fights and public executions. Into this crude world comes an ambitious boy whose uncanny ear for poetry and radical streak would change England forever.Enter Christopher Marlowe. A cobbler's son from Canterbury, by the time of his murder in 1593 Marlowe is the most celebrated playwright of his time, setting the stage for an explosion of artistic creativity. Written by one of our greatest writers on the Elizabethan era, Dark Renaissance tells Marlowe's story: a thrilling tale of daring, scandal and tragedy which reveals Marlowe to be a blazing talent who helped break England out of the cultural darkness and into the light.'An unforgettable literary biographical tour de force' INDEPENDENT'Reads like something out of Le Carré' OBSERVER'Gripping' THE TIMES'Terrific ... A thrilling, twisty tale' NEW YORK TIMES'Outstanding' MAIL ON SUNDAY
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Dark Renaissance
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 an uncanny ear for Latin poetry. A torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, like Christopher Marlowe, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous skepticism. What Marlowe seizes in his rare opportunity for a classical education, and what he does with it, brings about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture. His astonishing literary success will, in turn, nourish the talent of a collaborator and rival, William Shakespeare. Dark Renaissance illuminates both Marlowe's times and the origins and significance of his work-from his erotic translations of Ovid to his portrayal of unfettered ambition in a triumphant Tamburlaine to Doctor Faustus, his unforgettable masterpiece about making a pact with the devil in exchange for knowledge. Introducing us to Marlowe's transgressive genius in the form of a thrilling page-turner, Stephen Greenblatt brings a penetrating understanding of the literary work to reveal the inner world of the author, bringing to life a homosexual atheist who was tormented by his own compromises, who refused to toe the party line, and who was murdered just when he had found love. Meanwhile, he explores how the people Marlowe knew, and the transformations they wrought, gave birth to the economic, scientific, and cultural power of the modern world including Faustian bargains with which we reckon still.
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Second Chances
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
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Muhtesem Will
SBugüne kadar yazilmis en iyi Shakespeare biyografisi.John Carey, Sunday Times1580lerde genc bir adam, kücük bir tasra kasabasindan Londraya göc eder ve birkac yil zarfinda, yalnizca kendi caginin degil tüm zamanlarin en büyük oyun yazari olur. Hatta Borges, Melville ve Joyce gibi ustalara bakilirsa, gelmis gecmis en büyük yazarlardan biridir. Böylesi kisa bir zaman araliginda böylesi görkemli bir basari nasil mümkün olmustur peki Shakespeare nasil Shakespeare olmustur Ünlü edebiyat kuramcisi ve tarihci Stephen Greenblatt, 400. ölüm yildönümünde andigimiz William Shakespearei kaidesinden alip yeryüzüne indiriyor; onu görmemizi, duymamizi, yasadiklarini yasamamizi sagliyor. Modern dünyaya geciste kritik bir evreyi temsil eden Elizabeth dönemi Ingilteresinin zengin dokusunun icine yerlestirdigi bu hassas ve zeki genc adamin, insani her yönüyle anlatan kudretli bir dehaya dönüsmesini adim adim takip ediyor. Ayrica IV. Henry, Venedik Taciri, Othello, Romeo ve Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet ve Kral Lear gibi basyapitlarin arka planini anlatarak, bizlere bu saheserleri yeni bir gözle okuma sansi veriyor. Bu sürükleyici, yaratici kitap Shakespeare hakkinda bugüne kadarki en duyarli arastirma. Büyük yazarin yasadiklarinin yazdiklarina nasil yansidigini aktariyor.Stanley Wells, Shakespeare, Sex, and Love kitabinin yazariHayatimda okudugum en zekice, en sofistike üslupla, buna karsin en coskulu dille yazilmis yasamöyküsü calismasi.Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
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Der Tyrann
Was uns Shakespeare über Trump, Putin und Co. verrätWie kann es sein, dass eine Nation in die Hände eines Tyrannen fällt? Warum akzeptieren Menschen die Lügen eines Mannes, der ihrem Land so offensichtlich schadet? Und gibt es eine Chance, einen Tyrannen zu stoppen, ehe es zu spät ist? William Shakespeare hat sich in seinen Dramen immer wieder mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt und vom Aufstieg der Tyrannen, von ihrer Herrschaft und ihrem Niedergang erzählt. Pulitzer-Preisträger Stephen Greenblatt zeigt uns, wie präzise und anschaulich der Dichter das Wesen der Tyrannei eingefangen hat - und wie erschreckend aktuell uns dies heute erscheint. »Shakespeares Machtkunde für das 21. Jahrhundert« Cem Özdemir
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Die Erfindung der Intoleranz
Über das Ende der religiösen Vielfalt und Akzeptanz im alten Rom - eingeläutet durch das Christentum.Das alte Rom war in vielerlei Hinsicht fortschrittlich. Unzählige Götter und Religionen lebten in der Millionenstadt am Tiber nebeneinander - es war eine politische Strategie des Weltreiches, andere Kulturen und deren Rituale zu integrieren, aber auch Religionskritik und Skepsis zu akzeptieren. Wie sich das mit dem Aufkommen des Christentums änderte und wie religiöse Intoleranz und Toleranz entstanden, zeichnet Stephen Greenblatt in seinem Essay nach. Damit zeigt er auch, wie sich aus der kultischen Vielfalt der Antike eine Gesellschaft entwickelte, die auf Reinheit und Einheitlichkeit, auf Zerstörung und Zensur setzte. Vor allem die materialistische Vorstellung völlig unbeteiligter Götter erwies sich bald als etwas, das unter keinen Umständen toleriert werden konnte und dessen Träger (ob Bücher oder Menschen) vernichtet werden musste.
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Tyrant
World-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 disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare's work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge them.
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Tyrant
'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakespeare has no peer.'Brilliant, timely' Margaret Atwood, on Twitter'A scintillating book, uncannily illuminating about current politics, as perceptive about the victims of tyranny as it is about the tyrants themselves' Nicholas Hytner
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
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 scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and psychological power as literature. From the birth of the Hebrew Bible to the awe-inspiring contributions of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in bringing Adam and Eve to vivid life, Greenblatt unpacks the story's many interpretations and consequences over time. Rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, narrow literalism, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature: all can be counted as children of our "first" parents.
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book, it became not just the foundation of three major world faiths, but has evolved through art, philosophy and science to serve as the mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires. In a quest that begins at the dawn of time, Stephen Greenblatt takes us from ancient Babylonia to the forests of east Africa. We meet evolutionary biologists and fossilised ancestors; we grapple with morality and marriage in Milton's Paradise Lost; and we decide if the Fall is the unvarnished truth or fictional allegory.
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Will in the World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world's greatest playwright.
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Will in der Welt
Shakespeare ist wohl der bekannteste Dramatiker aller Zeiten, doch über sein Leben wissen wir so gut wie nichts. Kein Brief blieb von ihm erhalten, wir kennen nur ein paar dürre Lebensdaten, vereinzelte Schriftsätze aus Prozessen, die er betrieb - und ein überaus nüchternes Testament, in dem er seiner Frau sein zweitbestes Bett vermacht. In seiner hochgelobten Biographie versucht Stephen Greenblatt mit detektivischem Scharfsinn, die Lücken dieser Lebensgeschichte zu füllen und hinter das Geheimnis zu kommen, wie aus einem talentierten Jungen aus einer englischen Kleinstadt der größte Dramatiker aller Zeiten werden konnte, kurz: wie Shakespeare zu Shakespeare wurde.
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