Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare
@article{Goldberg1980RenaissanceSF, title={Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare}, author={Jonathan Goldberg and Stephen Greenblatt}, journal={Mln}, year={1980}, volume={96}, pages={1201} }
"Renaissance 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, "Renaissance Self…
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