Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 11, 2025: Fund Drive Special: Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare’s World

Dec 11, 2025
49 mins

Episode Description

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Links to assorted local theater & book venues

 

Prof. Stephen Greenblatt:  Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival

Stephen Greenblatt, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky about his book Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius o Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, recorded September 11, 2025.

Stephen Greenblatt is a literary historian and an expert on Shakespeare and the Elizabethan era. Among his other books are  Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, Hamlet in Purgatory, Shakespeare’s Freedom, and most recently Tyrant: Shakespeare in Politics. He is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

 

 

Review of “Sunday in the Park with George” at Shotgun Players Ashby Stage through January 31, 2026.

 

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