Analysis of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning

<p>What is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciousness the ability to fashion an identity out of the culture and politics of one’s society. In a series of brilliant readings Greenblatt shows how identity is constructed in the work of Shakespeare Marlowe Spenser and other Renaissance writers. A classic piece of literary criticism and the origins of the New Historicist school of thought <em>Renaissance Self-Fashioning</em> remains a critical and challenging text for readers of Renaissance literature.</p>