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Nothing Comes From Nothing: Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare and New Historicism

February 3, 2025

On 3rd January, 2025, 2016 Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt was interviewed in Delhi, as a part of the Holberg Prize promotional tour to India.

What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump?

The New York Times, June 27, 2018

Stephen Greenblatt’s ​“Tyrant” finds parallels between our political world and that of the Elizabethans — and locates some very familiar characters.

Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare's Tyrants - Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 100

Folger Shakespeare Library, June 26, 2018

“How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? That’s a deeply unsettling question that Shakespeare grappled with again and again.”

Bloody-Scepter'd 'Tyrant' Explores Shakespeare's Take On Politics

May 12, 2018

Stephen Greenblatt on 'Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics'

Folger Shakespeare Library, May 11, 2018

At an event at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Greenblatt discussed and read short excerpts from his new book, Tyrant, which looks at how Shakespeare navigated the fraught political situation of his time and how he explored the nature of leadership in the characters he created for his plays.

Stephen Greenblatt in conversation with Alex Shephard

November 8, 2011

For Lucretius, the idea of a ​“swerve” was what secured the idea of human freedom. All you needed was the tiniest movement of the atoms ..

The Siren’s call: A Roman recovered

Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2011

Nominated for this year’s National Book Award for nonfiction, ​“The Swerve” has a subtitle claiming a vast subject area, but Greenblatt wisely concentrates his focus upon Lucretius’ marvelous work and the adventures of Poggio Bracciolini.