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“But I never listen to music while I'm writing.”

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Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt is a renowned literary critic born on November 7, 1943. His research focuses on Renaissance literature, particularly the works of Shakespeare. Known for his innovative research methods and interdisciplinary approach, Greenblatt has had a profound impact on the field of literary criticism. more

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“First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.”

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“The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.”

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“What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.”

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“But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.”

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“I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.”

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“I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.”

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“I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.”

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Source: Hamlet in Purgatory

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”

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“Directing is a tremendous art.”

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“Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.”

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