Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American scholar who was credited with establishing New Historicism, an approach to literary criticism that mandated the interpretation of literature in terms of the milieu from which it emerged, as the dominant mode of Anglo-American literary analysis by the end of the 20th century. He is considered to be among the preeminent scholars of Renaissance literature in the late 20th and early 21st centuries...