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Shakespeare. Una vita nel teatro

Verso la fine del Cinquecento un giovanotto di provincia si trasferisce a Londra: non è ricco di famiglia, non ha conoscenze importanti, non ha studiato all'università. Il suo nome è William Shakespeare, e in un arco di tempo straordinariamente breve diventa il drammaturgo più importante di tutti i tempi. Le sue opere attirano colti cittadini londinesi e analfabeti che per la prima volta andavano a teatro. Fa ridere e piangere il pubblico, trasforma la politica in poesia, mescola arditamente beffe volgari e sottigliezze filosofiche. Cattura con uguale profondità gli aspetti più intimi della vita dei sovrani come di quella dei mendicanti, e allo stesso tempo mima senza fatica gli accenti dei goffi villani e si diverte con i racconti delle vecchie comari. Raccogliendo con perizia indizi, tracce e ipotesi, Stephen Greenblatt, oggi il massimo studioso mondiale di teatro elisabettiano, dipinge del Bardo un ritratto colto, ricostruendo ad arte la vita di uno scrittore capace come nessun altro di creare nomi e parole per le nostre passioni di uomini, e di dare corpo e immagine a sentimenti potenti e universali, con versi imperituri che a quattro secoli di distanza ancora non smettono di stupirci, di interrogarci, di rivelarci chi siamo.

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Dark Renaissance

What a magnificently thrilling read ... Dark Renaissance is a dazzling account of a dazzling life

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Dark Renaissance

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Poor boy. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.

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Second Chances

“A lively and provocative book.”—Alexander Leggatt, New York Review of Books“A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy.”—Rowan Williams, New Statesman“In this scintillating collaboration between our leading Shakespearean and our most trenchant interpreter of Freud, the concept of the second chance keeps gathering momentum and reach. Second Chances is intellectually nimble and emotionally wise.”—Christopher Benfey, author of A Summer of Hummingbirds“A fearless book. Greenblatt and Phillips speak to each other, and to us, with unflinching candor, wisdom, and tenderness about the possibility of renewing or remaking our lives. Second Chances stages a grand reckoning with fate and free will, fantasy and reality, and, above all, with the excitement and the terror of suddenly finding ourselves in a strange story, in a brave new world.”—Merve Emre, Wesleyan University“This co-authored blend of candor and scholarship illuminates the faults and regrets, even the stupidities, of any life— along with the gift of redemption.”—Robert Pinsky, author of Proverbs of Limbo“In the theme of the second chance, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips have discovered a marvelous entryway to both Shakespeare and Freud. This wonderful book is written clearly, with humanity and gusto.”—Mark Edmundson, University of Virginia“In this endlessly surprising and revelatory book, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips show that thinking seriously about a ‘second chance’ is what could actually give us a second chance: a second chance at Shakespeare; a second chance at psychoanalysis; a second chance at love; even a second chance at life itself.”—Devorah Baum, author of On Marriage

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. A leading scholar of English Renaissance literature, he serves as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including Dark Renaissance and the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning The Swerve. Deidre Shauna Lynch (Ph.D. Stanford), The Romantic Period, is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University. Her books include Loving Literature: A Cultural History, the prize-winning The Economy of Character, and (as co-editor) Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees and Cultural Institutions of the Novel. She has edited Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Persuasion and the Norton Critical Edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has won multiple teaching awards. Eric Eisner (Ph.D. Harvard), The Romantic Period, is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. His teaching and research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, especially Romanticism, lyric poetry, and the history of authorship and of reading. His book Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity treats Byron, Keats, P. B. Shelley, L.E.L., and Barrett Browning, among other poets. He edited a volume of essays on Romantic Fandom in the Romantic Circles Praxis series. He is currently working on a book on Keats and contemporary American poetry. Published articles include essays on Keats and recent American poetry, on women poets and the city, and on teaching Jane Austen with the Gothic. Catherine Robson (Ph.D. UC Berkeley), The Victorian Age, is Professor of English at New York University and Academic Director of NYU London; she is also a faculty member of the Dickens Project. She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman and Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem, and has received fellowships from the NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, the University of California, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and ACLS. Rachel Ablow (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins), The Victorian Age, is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. She specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture with research and teaching interests in the history and theory of the novel, the history of medicine, and the histories of epistemology, the sensations, and the emotions. She is the author ofThe Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot and Victorian Pain, and the editor of a special issue of Victorian Studies on “Victorian Feelings” (2008), a volume of essays entitled The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature, and a special issue of Representations on “The Social Life of Pain.” She is currently editor of the journal Victorian Literature and Culture. Jahan Ramazani (Ph.D. Yale and M.Phil. Oxford), The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia, previously the Mayo NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor. He is the author of Transnational Poetics, which won the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and of Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime. He is coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Ramazani is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the William Riley Parker Prize of the Modern Language Association. Aarthi Vadde (Ph.D. Wisconsin), The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, which won the Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association. She is the co-editor of The Critic as Amateur and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center for her book-in-progress We the Platform: Contemporary Literature after Web 2.0. She is also the co-founder of Novel Dialogue, a podcast about how novels are made--and what to make of them.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. A leading scholar of English Renaissance literature, he serves as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including Dark Renaissance and the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning The Swerve. James Simpson (Ph.D. Cambridge), The Middle Ages, is Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. An Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he is the author of Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text; Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry; Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350–1547; Volume 2 of The Oxford English Literary History; Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents; and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition. With Brian Cummings, he edited Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, and with Sarah Peverley John Hardyng’s Chronicle. His Reynard the Fox: A New Translation appeared in 2015. Julie Orlemanski (Ph.D. Harvard), The Middle Ages, is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She teaches and write about texts from the late Middle Ages and theoretical and methodological questions in present-day literary studies. She is also co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. Her book Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England considers embodiment in the historical period just prior to medicine’s modernity. She is currently working on a book entitled Things Without Faces: Prosopopoeia in Medieval Writing, which is a new account of literary person-making, beginning with twelfth-century innovations in devotional imagery and speculative allegory and continuing to the reinvention of those figural techniques in the French and English poetry of the two centuries following. Tiffany Stern (Ph.D. Cambridge), The Sixteenth Century, is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Birmingham. Her work combines literary criticism, theatre and book history and editing from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In particular, she studies the theatrical contexts that brought about plays by Shakespeare and others. As General Editor of the New Mermaids play series and Arden Shakespeare 4, she looks at the way plays were manifested in manuscript and print, and at how to rethink editing for the digital age. She is currently at work on a book on early modern theatre and popular entertainment, Playing Fair, a book on Shakespeare Beyond Performance, looking at the theatrical documents produced in the light of a play’s performance, and an edition of Shakespeare’s Tempest. Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins), The Early Seventeenth Century, is James Branch Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Being and Having in Shakespeare, Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, and Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind; editor of a volume of Renaissance tragedies; and coeditor of The Norton Shakespeare, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, and a collection of criticism on seventeenth-century English poetry. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Leverhulme, NEH, and ACLS fellowships, and the Roland Bainton Prize for Inwardness and Theater. Julie Crawford (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania), The Early Seventeenth Century, is the Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. She works on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture and has written on Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Margaret Cavendish, the Sidneys, Anne Clifford, Margaret Hoby, and Mary Wroth, as well as on post-Reformation religious culture, the history of reading, and the history of sexuality. She is the author of Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England and Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England. She is currently completing a book entitled Margaret Cavendish's Political Career. Her articles have appeared in Studies in English Literature, English Literary History, Renaissance Drama, PMLA, Early Modern Culture, Huntington Library Quarterly, The Oxford Companion to Popular Print Culture, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500–1610, and in a wide range of edited collections. James Noggle (Ph.D. UC Berkeley), The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, is Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is the author of The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists and The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing, and is completing a book called Unfelt Affect: Insensible Movements in Eighteenth-Century Literature. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Philosophical Society. Courtney Weiss Smith (Ph.D. Washington Unversity), The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, is Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University and Associate Editor at History & Theory. Her first book, Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (2016), won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarship in eighteenth-century studies. She is currently writing Sound Stuff: Words in Enlightenment Philosophy and Poetics, a history of ideas about poetic sound (including rhyme, onomatopoeia, pun, and polyptoton).