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Dramatists, English --- Theater --- Dramaturges anglais --- Théâtre --- Biography --- History --- Biographies --- Histoire --- Shakespeare, William, --- England --- Angleterre --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Théâtre --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616

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Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice.

Culture --- Social change --- Culture. --- Social change. --- #SBIB:39A3 --- #SBIB:316.7C160 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Cultuursociologie: contact tussen culturen --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and American peoples. This collection of essays, encompassing history, literary criticism, art history, and anthropology, offers a fresh and innovative approach to the momentous encounter.

Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- America --- History and criticism. --- Discovery and exploration --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Sources. --- Early accounts to 1600 --- Discoveries in geography. --- America. --- aesthetics. --- andes. --- anthropology. --- art history. --- aztec poetry. --- aztec. --- brazil. --- christopher columbus. --- colonialism. --- conquest of mexico. --- conquest. --- cortes. --- cultural consequences. --- discovery of the americas. --- discovery. --- european expansion. --- european history. --- expansionism. --- gender studies. --- gold. --- history. --- incas. --- innovative. --- latin american history. --- literary criticism. --- native peoples. --- new mexico. --- new world. --- rasu niti. --- representation books. --- resistance. --- survival. --- toqui oncoy. --- travel narratives. --- united states history. --- visual evidence.

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In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution--as well as a capacious new reading of the power of Hamlet. In the mid-sixteenth century, English authorities abruptly changed the relationship between the living and dead. Declaring that Purgatory was a false "poem," they abolished the institutions and banned the practices that Christians relied on to ease the passage to Heaven for themselves and their dead loved ones. Greenblatt explores the fantastic adventure narratives, ghost stories, pilgrimages, and imagery by which a belief in a grisly "prison house of souls" had been shaped and reinforced in the Middle Ages. He probes the psychological benefits as well as the high costs of this belief and of its demolition. With the doctrine of Purgatory and the elaborate practices that grew up around it, the church had provided a powerful method of negotiating with the dead. The Protestant attack on Purgatory destroyed this method for most people in England, but it did not eradicate the longings and fears that Catholic doctrine had for centuries focused and exploited. In his strikingly original interpretation, Greenblatt argues that the human desires to commune with, assist, and be rid of the dead were transformed by Shakespeare--consummate conjurer that he was--into the substance of several of his plays, above all the weirdly powerful Hamlet. Thus, the space of Purgatory became the stage haunted by literature's most famous ghost. This book constitutes an extraordinary feat that could have been accomplished by only Stephen Greenblatt. It is at once a deeply satisfying reading of medieval religion, an innovative interpretation of the apparitions that trouble Shakespeare's tragic heroes, and an exploration of how a culture can be inhabited by its own spectral leftovers. This expanded Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.

English drama (Tragedy) --- Ghosts in literature. --- Christianity and literature --- Purgatory in literature. --- English drama --- Christian influences. --- History --- Shakespeare, William, --- Voyages to the otherworld in literature. --- Religion in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Drama --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry

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