Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare
Abstract
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 - and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic text in literary studies, Self-Fashioning continues to be of interest to students of the Renaissance, English literature, and the new historicist tradition, and this new edition includes a preface by the author on the book's creation and influence.
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Thomas M. Greene, Stephen Greenblatt (1982). Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare. Comparative Literature. https://doi.org/10.2307/1770767
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title = {Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare},
author = {Greene, Thomas M. and Greenblatt, Stephen},
year = {1982},
journal = {Comparative Literature},
doi = {10.2307/1770767}
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