The Swerve

Superbly readable… An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * Daily Telegraph *
Superb history … this concise, learned and fluently written book tells a remarkable story – Charles Nicholl * Observer *
Dazzling * Guardian *
In this outstandingly constructed assessment of the birth of philosophical modernity, renowned Shakespeare scholar Greenblatt deftly transports reader to the dawn of the Renaissance…Readers from across the humanities will find this enthralling account irresistible * Library Journal *
More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian (starred review) * Kirkus Reviews *
In this gloriously learned page-turner, both biography and intellectual history, Harvard Shakespearean scholar Greenblatt turns his attention to the front end of the Renaissance as the origin of Western culture’s foundation: the free questioning of truth (starred review) * Publishers Weekly *

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning. A prize-winning author and celebrated scholar, he has been studying, thinking and writing about Renaissance literature for his entire working life.

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