Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud - The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud

About the author

Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His numerous books include The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. He is also the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare. He lives in Cambridge, MA. Adam Phillips, a psychoanalyst and essayist, is visiting professor of English at the University of York. He is general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud and the author of numerous books, including On Kindness; Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life; and Becoming Freud. He lives in London, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Phillips Greenblatt, Adam Phillips
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.2025
• EAN: 9780300283334
• ISBN: 978-0-300-28333-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 16 mm
• Series: The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis