Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

Stephen Greenblatt with Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator)

10 hours • first pub 2025 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction history literary medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world came...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...