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Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve?s story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming ...Show more
The Norton Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
139.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
The Norton Shakespeare has long been acclaimed worldwide for its vibrant introductions, first among them Stephen Greenblatt's General Introduction, a richly textured portrait of Shakespeare's work and world. This Third Edition introduces a meticulously edited new text created by an expert international ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
59.99 AUD
Category: History
Humans cannot live without stories. But one story has proved itself the most durable and hauntingly real of all time. The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book, it became not just the foundation of thr ...Show more
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the N ...Show more
Tyrant Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shake ...Show more
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power?How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power?And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakesp ...Show more
Will in the World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dange ...Show more
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