Stephen Greenblatt Archives — Harvard Gazette

Everyone calls it a classic. But who’s everyone, and why am I so bored?

Scholarly wisdom for readers beating their heads against a great work of literature: Stop doing that

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DateJuly 25, 2023November 8, 2023

Tony Kushner on Jewishness, Spielberg, ‘unsafe’ art

In Harvard visit, Pulitzer-winning playwright reflects on roots, writing (and rewriting), empathy in a darkened theater

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DateMarch 29, 2023November 8, 2023

A singular poet

Nobel laureate Louise Glück, delivering Doft Lecture, recalls Judaism of her youth, shares details from her writing life

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DateNovember 21, 2022November 8, 2023

Book covers: "Ulysses"; "The Plague"; "Sabbath's Theater"; "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"; "Water-blue Eyes"; "Othello"; "Breakfast at Tiffany's"; "Reynard the Fox."

Who is your favorite literary hero, villain?

Some of Harvard’s best-known readers, writers weigh in

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DateJune 28, 2022July 7, 2022

Women who are ambitious, powerful, in love — and in peril

New A.R.T. series takes a musical examination of challenges faced by heroines in five Shakespeare plays

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DateOctober 27, 2021November 8, 2023

A dark year of sickness, reckoning, loss — and periodic bits of light

Scholars tell of muddling through, insights gained, small wins, and a rescue pup named RBG

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DateDecember 17, 2020November 8, 2023

Danger in creating an English-language library in Gaza

Poet Mosab Abu Toha, a Scholar at Risk, describes attempt to intimidate him

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DateMarch 9, 2020November 8, 2023

Stephen Greenblatt and Bill Rauch discuss both the history and the new production of “Othello.”

400 years later, a moment ripe for ‘Othello’

Marking A.R.T. production, Greenblatt, Rauch marvel anew at depths of Shakespeare’s tragedy

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DateJanuary 18, 2019November 8, 2023

Answering questions from President Faust onstage at Sanders Theatre, Wynton Marsalis revisited themes from past Harvard conversations.

Music and meaning, the Marsalis way

Talking with President Faust, jazz great explores the transcendence of creativity and artistry

Arts|

DateOctober 31, 2017November 7, 2017

Stephen Greenblatt and Dean Robin Kelsey chat about Greenblatt's new book "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve" in the lobby of Harvard Global Support Services.

Eden as a storyteller’s paradise

Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, ‘The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve’

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DateOctober 24, 2017November 8, 2023

Wynton Marsalis makes a return engagement

Cultural literacy key topic in conversation with President Faust

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DateOctober 16, 2017November 8, 2023

Jorge Olivera Castillo is a writer and journalist and a well-known Cuban dissident. He was sentenced to prison by the Cuban government for his political views but was released after 21 months. He is now at Harvard through the Scholars at Risk program.

Out of ‘the wolf’s mouth’

Scholar at Risk, a Cuban journalist and poet who was once jailed, savors everyday life at Harvard

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DateDecember 6, 2016March 4, 2019

Five actors of New York-based Compagnia de’ Colombari perform a scene from "The Merchant of Venice" on the main square of Venice's historic Jewish ghetto.

‘The Merchant’ in Venice

Stephen Greenblatt, Ruth Bader Ginsburg help commemorate 500th anniversary of Jewish ghetto

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DateAugust 2, 2016

President Drew Faust applauds the seniors processing to the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises.

From words to action

Greenblatt and Schiff speak at PBK Literary Exercises

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DateMay 24, 2016March 15, 2019

Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities.

Stephen Greenblatt wins Holberg Prize

Professor praised as ‘one of the most distinctive and influential voices in the humanities’

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DateMarch 11, 2016

“Shakespeare: His Collected Works” includes 80 rare objects drawn from Houghton and other libraries.

In his own works

Exhibit marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death

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DateFebruary 8, 2016December 20, 2017

Students in the Harvard Summer Program in Venice met with a University of Padua team to learn about what's happening at the excavation site Fondi Cossar, behind the Basilica of Aquileia (photo 1). They also visited the Orto delle Vignole on a tour led by Walter S Barker Chair in the Department of Economics Stephen Marglin (photo 2). But, when in Venice ... of course the students learned about Venetian rowing, and even participated in races (photo 3).

The Venice connection

Collaborative summer study program between Harvard and Italian university marks its 10th year

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DateSeptember 8, 2015

At Houghton Library, Harvard Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt (far right), guides Humanities 10a students through a look at first editions and other treasures.

Glimpsing Dublin from the wine-dark sea

‘Hum 10’ guides students through literary masterworks

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DateDecember 12, 2014March 15, 2019

Dance Director and Senior Lecturer Jill Johnson teaches students in the classroom for the Harvard Dance Project. The students rehearse in the Harvard Dance Center at Harvard University. Whitney Cover, Ed.M. '15, (left) warms up during class. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Minds in motion

Harvard Dance Project animates the intellect

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DateDecember 4, 2014September 7, 2016

Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is pictured in his home in Cambridge. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

‘So that represented my own little rebellion’

The literary adventures of Stephen Greenblatt

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DateJune 3, 2014

Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt addressed the comforts of tragedy at the Cambridge Public Library.

Virtues of doom

Greenblatt speaks on the spectacle, and consolations, of tragedy at the Cambridge Public Library

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DateApril 8, 2014July 25, 2019

This cute valentine is one of many quirky and earnest vintage keepsakes unearthed from the Harvard University Archives and the Schlesinger Library. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

All for love

For Valentine’s Day, professors read an enduring poem of caring

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DateFebruary 13, 2014April 23, 2019

Stephen Greenblatt (right, photo 1) moderated a standing-room-only panel on storytelling that included Robert Pinsky (photo 1), Kimberly Theidon (from left, photo 2), Tracy Kidder, Jill Lepore (from left, photo 3), and Birtukan Midekssa.

Happily ever after, sometimes

Top writers explain the hard-wired human need to tell and hear stories

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DateDecember 6, 2013July 8, 2019

Harvard Professor Martin Puchner, editor of the newly revised six-volume "Norton Anthology of World Literature," makes a point in his Barker Center office.

World literature, sized right

Harvard professor leads Norton Anthology team that presents key writings of myriad cultures

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DateJune 18, 2012July 19, 2019

In May, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

A time was had by all

Harvard's 375th anniversary year saw everything from the return of ROTC to Lady Gaga

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DateMay 24, 2012June 26, 2019

Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt's book, "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize. In its citation, the Pulitzer board described Greenblatt’s book as “a provocative book arguing that an obscure work of philosophy, discovered nearly 600 years ago, changed the course of history by anticipating the science and sensibilities of today.”

Stephen Greenblatt wins Pulitzer Prize

Professor adds to accolades for study of ancient poem

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DateApril 16, 2012

John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen Greenblatt participates in a Q&A interview the Harvard Gazette in his Widener Library office at Harvard University. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

On the nature of modern thought

Q&A with Stephen Greenblatt

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DateMarch 9, 2012

Members of the Asian-American Dance Troupe performed during Junior Parents Weekend at Sanders Theatre. “I was impressed by the diversity of talent here,” said Kathy Carroll, on campus with her husband George to visit their daughter Ann ’13. “The professors that spoke, the artists, the dancers — it’s just awesome. We can see how fortunate Ann is to be exposed to all of this.”

Junior achievement

Annual parents program puts focus on third-year undergraduates

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DateMarch 5, 2012May 23, 2019

“The message of Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ program is drowned out by the $2 billion spent to market unhealthy food to children,” said Evolutionary Biology Professor Daniel Lieberman during "Harvard Thinks Big" event at Sanders Theatre.

Ideas to improve the everyday

Third ‘Harvard Thinks Big’ event spotlights eight game-changing concepts

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DateFebruary 10, 2012April 9, 2019

Professor Stephen Greenblatt’s most recent book, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” was the topic of the third in a series of book talks given by Harvard faculty and alumni throughout the Wintersession programming period. “Much of what we understand of modernity made its way back into the world from an older world, thanks to the efforts of Poggio Bracciolini,” Greenblatt told his audience of nearly 50 undergraduates.

A key to modernity

Greenblatt recounts discovery that helped to reshape worldview

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DateJanuary 20, 2012April 9, 2019

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Scholarly wisdom for readers beating their heads against a great work of literature: Stop doing that

In Harvard visit, Pulitzer-winning playwright reflects on roots, writing (and rewriting), empathy in a darkened theater

Nobel laureate Louise Glück, delivering Doft Lecture, recalls Judaism of her youth, shares details from her writing life

Some of Harvard’s best-known readers, writers weigh in

New A.R.T. series takes a musical examination of challenges faced by heroines in five Shakespeare plays

Scholars tell of muddling through, insights gained, small wins, and a rescue pup named RBG

Poet Mosab Abu Toha, a Scholar at Risk, describes attempt to intimidate him

Marking A.R.T. production, Greenblatt, Rauch marvel anew at depths of Shakespeare’s tragedy

Talking with President Faust, jazz great explores the transcendence of creativity and artistry

Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, ‘The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve’

Cultural literacy key topic in conversation with President Faust

Scholar at Risk, a Cuban journalist and poet who was once jailed, savors everyday life at Harvard

Stephen Greenblatt, Ruth Bader Ginsburg help commemorate 500th anniversary of Jewish ghetto

Greenblatt and Schiff speak at PBK Literary Exercises

Professor praised as ‘one of the most distinctive and influential voices in the humanities’

Exhibit marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death

Collaborative summer study program between Harvard and Italian university marks its 10th year

‘Hum 10’ guides students through literary masterworks

Harvard Dance Project animates the intellect

The literary adventures of Stephen Greenblatt

Greenblatt speaks on the spectacle, and consolations, of tragedy at the Cambridge Public Library

For Valentine’s Day, professors read an enduring poem of caring

Top writers explain the hard-wired human need to tell and hear stories

Harvard professor leads Norton Anthology team that presents key writings of myriad cultures

Harvard's 375th anniversary year saw everything from the return of ROTC to Lady Gaga

Professor adds to accolades for study of ancient poem

Q&A with Stephen Greenblatt

Annual parents program puts focus on third-year undergraduates

Third ‘Harvard Thinks Big’ event spotlights eight game-changing concepts

Greenblatt recounts discovery that helped to reshape worldview

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