The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet | Stephen Greenblatt 1. Shakespeare was in the business, all of his life, of probing the passions of his characters and arousing the passions of his audiences. His skill in

This @nybooks.com article (by #StephenGreenblatt) seems to have most of the pertinent background-info I was looking for after reading that quote.

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This is why it takes us days to watch #movies sometimes. We're paused at 57s of #Hamnet and reading lengthy think-pieces

"The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.”―Stephen Greenblatt

#BookLovers #Bookish #AmReading #BookCommunity #BookRecommendations #IndieAuthor #BookDiscussion #quote #delusion #StephenGreenblatt

“Poems are difficult to silence.”

✒️ #StephenGreenblatt, American literary historian and author, is 82 today. #Literature #History

Live fast, die young, inspire Shakespeare — Harvard Gazette In "Dark Renaissance," Stephen Greenblatt finds a tragic strain in the life and work of Christopher Marlowe.

🎭 Live fast, die young, inspire #Shakespeare

#Interview: #StephenGreenblatt finds a tragic strain in the life and work of #ChristopherMarlowe

#Poetry #Theatre #Literature #History

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Early modern autofiction? In his Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare (2004), Stephen Greenblatt cites Nicholas Rowe’s anecdote (first published in 1709) about the

#Book #Review by Emma Smith

Dark Renaissance
The dangerous times and fatal genius of #Shakespeare’s greatest rival, #ChristopherMarlowe
352pp. Bodley Head. £25.
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#Theatre #Literature

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From #StephenGreenblatt, "We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself."
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A few of his points:

* Sputnik (1957) triggered bipartisan support for massive new spending on US research. Southern conservatives […]

Buchbesprechung Stephen Greenblatt: Die Wende Wie die Renaissance begann

Buchbesprechung Stephen Greenblatt: Die Wende
Wie die Renaissance begann
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

DAY 15

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“Pilfering” is a good word for the hands into which these artifacts may have fallen. I do love #Lucretius, but to be clear Lucretius comes 250 years after the Library of Alexandria. Is the Renaissance over? #StephenGreenblatt posits that the enlightenment, awakening, was brought about through a book

Martin, our resident history expert recommends Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt. A scholarly study revealing the seeds of Trumpism in Shakespeare’s villains is highly entertaining.
#ShakespeareSunday #stephengreenblatt #tyrant

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