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About the Book

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.

About the Author

Stephen Greenblatt is The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Texts

1. The Circulation of Social Energy
2. Invisible Bullets
3· Fiction and Friction
4· Shakespeare and the Exorcists
5· Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne

Notes
Index

Awards

  • James Russell Lowell Prize 1989, Modern Language Association