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Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
$52.00 AUD
Category: History
Renaissance 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--More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare--a ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
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 ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
$60.00 AUD
Category: Science
Humans cannot live without stories. But one story has proved itself the most durable and hauntingly real of all time. 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 thr ...Show more
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Almost 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 N ...Show more
Tyrant Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
$38.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How 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 Shake ...Show more
Tyrant - Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt
$37.95 AUD
Category: Political
As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen G ...Show more
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How 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 Shakesp ...Show more
Will in the World : How Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commercial world, for the theatre company in which he was a share ...Show more
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