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Renaissance Self-Fashioning
From More to Shakespeare
by Stephen Jay Greenblatt
ISBN: 0226306542
ISBN-13: 9780226306544
Format: Paperback
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Published date: 1984
Size: 5.75 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Examines how Marlowe, Spenser, and other sixteenth-century English authors sustained the illusion in their writing that each was the principle creator of his own identity.
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Greenblatt, Stephen J, Professor
University of Chicago Press, 1983. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very Good minus. Edgewear, light surface creasing. A few spot of water damage, one accidental looking swipe of ink on the first page. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 332 p. Audience: General/trade. ( more information) Offered by Pulpfiction Books (Canada)
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Greenblatt, Stephen
University Of Chicago Press. PAPERBACK. 0226306542 NICE COPY--SPEEDY SHIPPING with SUPER CUSTOMER SERVICE . Very Good. ( more information) Offered by TIME OUT BOOKS (United States)
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