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ⓘ About Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt is an American author and professor. He was born on November 7, 1943 in Boston but grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. He attended high school in Newton and would move on to go to Yale University. He studied there to get his B.A. degree in 1964 and got his Ph.D. in 1969. He would also attend Pembroke College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, getting his Masters degree in 1966. He has also taught at Berkeley’s University of California as well as Harvard. He taught for nearly three decades at Berkeley before he decided to accept a Harvard position. Stephen Greenblatt has taught as a professor at Harvard University and John Cogan University, which named him their professor of Humanities in the year 2000.
All Book Series by Stephen Greenblatt
Practicing New Historicism
Book 8 of 14 · published 2000 Co-authored · Catherine Gallagher
Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Man and His Rolesby Greenblatt Stephen J.Hardcover
Book 13 of 14 · published 2021
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud
Latest in the series · book 14 of 14 · published 2024 Co-authored · Adam Phillips
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature
Series opener · book 1 of 44 · published 1925 Anthology · José Ortega y Gasset
The Coming of the French Revolution
Book 3 of 44 · published 1939 Anthology · Georges Lefebvre,R.R. Palmer,Timothy Tackett
Twelve Who Ruled
Book 4 of 44 · published 1941 Anthology · R.R. Palmer,Isser Woloch
Only Yesterday
Book 5 of 44 · published 1945 Anthology · Barbara Harshav,Adam Kirsch,S.Y. Agnon,Benjamin Harshav
Anatomy of Criticism
Book 6 of 44 · published 1957 Anthology · Northrop Frye,David Damrosch
The Age of the Democratic Revolution
Book 8 of 44 · published 1964 Anthology · David Armitage,R.R. Palmer
The Passions and the Interests
Book 9 of 44 · published 1977 Anthology · Albert O. Hirschman
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Book 10 of 44 · published 1979 Anthology · Richard M. Rorty
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Book 12 of 44 · published 1985 Anthology · Steven Shapin
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Book 13 of 44 · published 1987 Anthology · Maria Tatar
Origins of the Kabbalah
Book 14 of 44 · published 1987 Anthology · Gershom Scholem,Allan Arkush
The Formation of Christendom
Book 15 of 44 · published 1987 Anthology · Judith Herrin
The Therapy of Desire
Book 16 of 44 · published 1994 Anthology · Martha C. Nussbaum
The Ethics of Identity
Book 20 of 44 · published 2005 Anthology · Kwame Anthony Appiah
On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
Book 21 of 44 · published 2011 Anthology · Charles Tilly,William Chester Jordan,Joseph R. Strayer
Addiction by Design
Book 22 of 44 · published 2012 Anthology · Natasha Dow Schüll
Nietzsche
Book 24 of 44 · published 2013 Anthology · Walter Kaufmann,Alexander Nehamas
The Struggle for Equality
Book 25 of 44 · published 2014 Anthology · James M. McPherson
How Propaganda Works
Book 26 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Jason F. Stanley
Racism
Book 27 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · George M. Fredrickson,Albert Camarillo
The King's Two Bodies
Book 28 of 44 · published 2016 Anthology · William Chester Jordan,Ernst H. Kantorowicz,Conrad Leyser
The Machiavellian Moment
Book 29 of 44 · published 2016 Anthology · Richard Whatmore,J.G.A. Pocock
The Tao of Architecture
Book 30 of 44 · published 2017 Anthology · Amos Ih Tiao Chang,David Wang
The Rhetorical Presidency
Book 31 of 44 · published 2017 Anthology · Russell Muirhead,Jeffrey K. Tulis
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Book 32 of 44 · published 2018 Anthology · Heinrich Robert Zimmer
Zen and Japanese Culture
Book 34 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · D.T. Suzuki,Richard M. Jaffe
From Caligari to Hitler
Book 35 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · Siegfried Kracauer,Leonardo Quaresima
Lectures on Shakespeare
Book 36 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · W.H. Auden,Arthur C. Kirsch
The Muqaddimah
Book 37 of 44 · published 2020 Anthology · Bruce B. Lawrence,Ibn Khaldun,N.J. Dawood,Franz Rosenthal
After the End of Art
Book 38 of 44 · published 2021 Anthology · Arthur C. Danto
Passionate Enlightenment
Book 39 of 44 · published 2022 Anthology · Miranda Shaw
Russia Leaves the War
Book 40 of 44 · published 2023 Anthology · Frank Costigliola,George F. Kennan
Shamanism
Book 41 of 44 · published 2024 Anthology · Wendy Doniger,Mircea Eliade
Truth and Truthfulness
Book 42 of 44 · published 2025 Anthology · Bernard Williams
Fearful Symmetry
Latest in the series · book 44 of 44 · published 2025 Anthology · Nicholas Halmi,Northrop Frye
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1
Series opener · book 1 of 17 · published 1962 Co-authored · M.H. Abrams
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2
Book 2 of 17 · published 1962 Co-authored · Katharine Eisaman Maus,Jack Stillinger,Alfred David,Jon Stallworthy,Carol T. Christ,Lawrence Lipking,Deidre Shauna Lynch,James Simpson,James Noggle,M.H. Abrams,Jahan Ramazani,George M. Logan,Barbara Kiefer Lewalski,Catherine Robson
The Norton Anthology Of English Literature: The Major Authors
Book 3 of 17 · published 1987 Anthology · M.H. Abrams
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors
Book 4 of 17 · published 1996 Anthology · M.H. Abrams
The Romantic Period
Book 5 of 17 · published 1999 Co-authored · Katharine Eisaman Maus,Jack Stillinger,Alfred David,Jon Stallworthy,Carol T. Christ,Lawrence Lipking,Deidre Shauna Lynch,James Simpson,James Noggle,M.H. Abrams,Jahan Ramazani,George M. Logan,Barbara Kiefer Lewalski,Catherine Robson
The Victorian Age
Book 6 of 17 · published 1999 Co-authored · Katharine Eisaman Maus,Jack Stillinger,Alfred David,Jon Stallworthy,Carol T. Christ,Lawrence Lipking,Deidre Shauna Lynch,James Simpson,James Noggle,M.H. Abrams,Jahan Ramazani,George M. Logan,Barbara Kiefer Lewalski,Catherine Robson
The Twentieth Century & After
Book 7 of 17 · published 1999 Co-authored · Katharine Eisaman Maus,Jack Stillinger,Alfred David,Jon Stallworthy,Carol T. Christ,Lawrence Lipking,Deidre Shauna Lynch,James Simpson,James Noggle,M.H. Abrams,Jahan Ramazani,George M. Logan,Barbara Kiefer Lewalski,Catherine Robson
Norton Anthology of English Literature
Book 8 of 17 · published 2003 Anthology · M.H. Abrams
The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry
Book 9 of 17 · published 2003 Anthology · Richard Ellmann,Robert O'Clair,Jahan Ramazani
The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
Book 10 of 17 · published 2005 Co-authored · Katharine Eisaman Maus,Jack Stillinger,Alfred David,Jon Stallworthy,Carol T. Christ,Lawrence Lipking,Deidre Shauna Lynch,James Simpson,James Noggle,M.H. Abrams,Jahan Ramazani,George M. Logan,Barbara Kiefer Lewalski,Catherine Robson
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. F: The Twentieth Century & After
Book 11 of 17 · published 2005 Co-authored · Katharine Eisaman Maus,Jack Stillinger,Alfred David,Jon Stallworthy,Carol T. Christ,Lawrence Lipking,Deidre Shauna Lynch,James Simpson,James Noggle,M.H. Abrams,Jahan Ramazani,George M. Logan,Barbara Kiefer Lewalski,Catherine Robson
The Norton Anthology Of English Literature, Vol. B: The Romantic Period Through The Twentieth Century And After
Book 12 of 17 · published 2006 Co-authored · Katharine Eisaman Maus,Jack Stillinger,Alfred David,Jon Stallworthy,Carol T. Christ,Lawrence Lipking,Deidre Shauna Lynch,James Simpson,James Noggle,M.H. Abrams,Jahan Ramazani,George M. Logan,Barbara Kiefer Lewalski,Catherine Robson
Major Authors, Vol.1
Book 13 of 17 · published 2013 Co-authored · Alfred David,Carol T. Christ,M.H. Abrams
Major Authors, Vol. 2
Book 14 of 17 · published 2013 Co-authored · Alfred David,Carol T. Christ,M.H. Abrams
Norton Anthology of English Literature 9e The Major Authors V1 + Norton Anthology of English Literature 9e V1 Ebook Folder
Book 16 of 17 · published 2019 Co-authored · M.H. Abrams
The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century
Latest in the series · book 17 of 17 · published 2024
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Stephen Greenblatt?
Stephen Greenblatt is an American author and professor. He was born on November 7, 1943 in Boston but grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. He attended high school in Newton and would move on to go to Yale University.
Which Stephen Greenblatt series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Princeton Classics series, the earliest of Stephen Greenblatt's multi-book series: it opens with The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature (1925) and runs to 44 books across 1925–2025, ending with Fearful Symmetry (2025). Stephen Greenblatt's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Stephen Greenblatt written?
Stephen Greenblatt has 81 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1925 and 2025. 79 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Princeton Classics series with 44 books — and 2 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Stephen Greenblatt's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Stephen Greenblatt's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Princeton Classics (1925–2025, 44 books), Norton Anthology of English Literature (1962–2024, 17 books) and Stephen Greenblatt Biographies (1965–2025, 3 books), plus 2 more.
How are Stephen Greenblatt's books organised into series?
This guide splits Stephen Greenblatt's 81 books into 5 named series and 2 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Princeton Classics (44 books, 1925–2025); Norton Anthology of English Literature (17 books, 1962–2024); Stephen Greenblatt Literary (14 books, 1981–2024); Stephen Greenblatt Biographies (3 books, 1965–2025); Art History (1 book, 2011).