Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning examines the formation and expression of identity in English Renaissance culture. Through discussions of major writers and thinkers from More to Shakespeare, it considers how literary works reflect changing relationships between individuals, society, religion, and power.
About This Book
Renaissance Self-Fashioning explores how identity was shaped, expressed, and interpreted during the English Renaissance.
Stephen Greenblatt examines the relationship between individual self-presentation and the social, religious, and political structures of the period.
The book focuses on figures including Thomas More, Thomas Wyatt, William Tyndale, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.
It offers a historically grounded study of literature, culture, and the formation of Renaissance selves.
Reviews
No reviews yet. Be the first to review this book!