Download or read book The Greenblatt Reader written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism. This Reader makes available in one volume Greenblatt’s most important writings on culture, Renaissance studies, and Shakespeare. It also features occasional pieces on subjects as diverse as story-telling and miracles, demonstrating the range of his cultural interests. Taken together, the texts collected here dispel the idea that new historicism is antithetical to literary and aesthetic value.