Stephen Greenblatt
Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, has edited seven collections of criticism, and is a founding editor of the journal Representations.

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Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

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An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

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Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

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