“I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.Quote by Stephen GreenblattTopics: Quotes about Stephen GreenblattShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting....#Stephen Greenblatt
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that...#Stephen Greenblatt
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life...#Stephen Greenblatt
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love...#Stephen Greenblatt
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about?...#Stephen Greenblatt
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what...#Stephen Greenblatt
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle...#Stephen Greenblatt
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he...#Stephen Greenblatt