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Fathomless Strangeness of the Ordinary

Stephen Greenblatt

  • Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park

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Stephen Greenblatt’s most recent book is Hamlet in Purgatory. He is working on a biographical study of Shakespeare.

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