Traveling Shakespeare: Plays in Motion

Traveling Shakespeare: Plays in Motion is a Distinguished Thinkers at the Newhouse Center lecture that concludes Shakespeare on the Global Stage: A Festival of Performance and Scholarship.

The Newhouse Center is pleased to host Stephan Jay Greenblatt, the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; and Hamlet in Purgatory. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, has edited seven collections of criticism, and is a founding editor of the journalRepresentations. His honors include the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 National Book Award for The Swerve, MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize (twice), Harvard University’s Cabot Fellowship, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, Yale’s Wilbur Cross Medal, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.

He has held visiting professorships at universities in Beijing, Kyoto, London, Paris, Florence, Torino, Trieste, and Bologna, and is a permanent fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Letters, and the American Philosophical Society. Greenblatt is currently the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

This event is free and open to the public, and reservations are neither required nor available.