Stephen Greenblatt Books

Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.

This collection from The Norton Shakespeare presents a carefully edited text that aligns with current scholarship, featuring innovative teaching tools. It includes both printed volumes for lasting libraries and digital editions for classroom use. Updated introductions and notes enhance the reading experience, with digital access provided via a registration code.

This collection from The Norton Shakespeare presents a carefully edited text that aligns with current scholarship, featuring innovative teaching tools. It includes both printed volumes for lasting libraries and digital editions for classroom use. Updated introductions and notes enhance the reading experience, with digital access provided via a registration code.

An anthology introducing the major authors and works of English literature from the Romantic period through the Victorian Age and the Twentieth Century.

An anthology introducing the major authors and works of English literature from the Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.

This collection from The Norton Shakespeare presents a carefully edited text that aligns with current scholarship, featuring innovative teaching tools. It includes both printed volumes for lasting libraries and digital editions for classroom use. Updated introductions and notes enhance the reading experience, with digital access provided via a registration code.

This collection from The Norton Shakespeare presents a carefully edited text that aligns with current scholarship, featuring innovative teaching tools. It includes both printed volumes for lasting libraries and digital editions for classroom use. Updated introductions and notes enhance the reading experience, with digital access provided via a registration code.

World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. 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 Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution. Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules—these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues—and the cynicism and opportunism of the various enablers and hangers-on who surround them—and imagined how they might be stopped. As Greenblatt shows, Shakespeare’s work, in this as in so many other ways, remains vitally relevant today.

The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video modules help introduce students to literature in multiple exciting ways. These innovations make the Norton an even better teaching tool for instructors and, as ever, an unmatched value for students.

The Major Authors Ninth Edition features new selections, visual and media support, and a free Supplemental Ebook. Grounded in the strengths of Norton Anthologies, it sets the standard for English literature collections and offers exceptional value.