This author described sitting next to a man on a plane who asks him to mouth the words "I want to die" so he can practice lip-reading.
This author described sitting next to a man on a plane who asks him to mouth the words "I want to die" so he can practice lip-reading. This author examined Thomas Harriot's account of his contact with American Indians in an essay that states that subversiveness is "contained by the power it would appear to threaten". The line "I begin with a desire to speak with the dead" opens an essay in which he argues that plays try to produce a kind of collective experience called "social energy". He defined identity as "a characteristic mode of (*) address to the world" and discussed how its formation changed in the Renaissance through a process of "self-fashioning". He claimed that we should use imagination to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of Shakespeare's biography in a speculative work on "How Shakespeare became Shakespeare". For 10 points, name this American literary critic who wrote Will in the World and founded New Historicism.
This author described sitting next to a man on a plane who asks him to mouth the words "I want to die" so he can practice lip-reading.
Stephen (Jay) Greenblatt