Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (3): 1-13.

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Current Trends in Shakespeare's Biographical Studies and Cultural Poetics: An Interview with Stephen Greenblatt

Dang Wei, Stephen Greenblatt   

  • Online:2020-06-25 Published:2021-02-28
  • About author:Dang Wei is a PhD candidate at the School of Foreign Languages, Northeastern Normal University (Changchun 130024, China) and lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages, Shenyang Normal University. Her primary research interests include Renaissance drama, Shakespeare, and Cultural study. Email: dangw881@outlook.com. Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the general editor of the journal, Representations, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, and The Norton Shakespeare. His honors include the 2016 Holberg Prize, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, and the 2011 National Book Award. His research includes Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Literature of Travel and Exploration, Religion and Literature, Literature and Anthropology, and Literary and Cultural Theory. Email: greenbl@fas.harvard.edu
  • Supported by:
    “A Study of William Shakespeare's Biographical Images” (18YJC752004) sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Ministry of Education of China

Abstract: Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Italian literary academy Accademia degli Arcadi, a renowned Shakespearean scholar, literary critic, and one of the founders of New Historicism. His Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, characterized by both his academic insights and fascinating storytelling, was on The New York Times bestseller list for several weeks, reaching both the academia and general public. This interview with him addresses the following issues regarding the life-writing of Shakespeare and cultural poetics: Shakespeare portrayed by Prof. Greenblatt, Shakespeare studies and common readers, biography and Shakespeare studies, new directions in biography, self-fashioning and cultural poetics in Shakespearean biography, as well as the realistic concerns of biographies.

Key words: Shakespeare's biography, Shakespeare studies, cultural poetics

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