Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late...

Et si la Renaissance était née d’un livre ? Un livre perdu, connu par fragments, copié par quelques moines et retrouvé par un humaniste fou de manuscrits anciens? L’idée, audacieuse, vertigineuse, ouvre les portes de l’histoire de Poggio Bracciolini, dit le Pogge, qui découvrit dans un monastère allemand une copie du De rerum natura de Lucrèce. C’était à l’aube du XVe siècle. Le Pogge n’était pas seulement un bibliophile passionné et un copiste exceptionnel. Il aimait les arts et ...

"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life; full of drama and pageantry, and a...

**“Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read.” —Jack Miles, author of God: A BiographyDaring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity.**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 ...

Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos alemanes en busca de manuscritos antiguos.En uno de ellos descubrió el único ejemplar que había sobrevivido de una obra escrita en el siglo primero antes de Cristo, De rerum natura, un poema filosófico de Tito Lucrecio Caro que desarrollaba una visión materialista del mundo, destinada a liberar al hombre del temor a los dioses. Lo copió y regresó con él a Italia, donde l...

Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.This is the thrilling life-story of Christopher Marlowe: Shakespeare's greatest rival and inspiration, the writer who transformed art and culture in England forever.'A dazzling account of a dazzling life' STEPHEN FRY’Sparkling, addictive reading' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'As evocative as any novel' PHILIPPA GREGORY'An unforg...

"Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—M...

A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed ...

Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires and fears, and by reconnecting with this historic reality we are able to experience the true character of the playwright himself. Greenblatt traces Shakespeare's unfolding imaginative generosity - his abilit...

**"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." —Philip RothWorld-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 sh...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A Kirkus Reviews, The Economist, The New Yorker, Library Journal, BookPage, Christian Science Monitor, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2025 • One of the Washington Post's "Notable Works of Nonfiction" of 2025 • One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2025 • One of Bookbub's Best Nonfiction of 2025 • Featured in the Wall Street Journal Guide to Holiday Gift Books...

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. Comment ce récit peut-il être considéré, encore aujourd’hui, comme le miroir exact de l’aube de l’humanité ? Stephen Greenblatt, auteur de l’inoubliable Quattrocento, retrace l’histoire de nos origines, des récits millénaires de la Création jusqu’aux rivages darwiniens de l’évolutionnisme, en passant par les ...