Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud | Stephen Greenblatt in conversation with Paul Smith

In Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, Stephen Greenblatt and co-author Adam Phillips explore the powerful theme of second chances in life. Drawing on Shakespeare’s plays and Freud’s theories, they examine stories of transformation, renewal, and the enduring hope of redemption. In conversation with Paul Smith, Greenblatt weaves through the tales of Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, and more, revealing how literature allows us to rehearse and understand the complexities of change, healing and the deep-seated hope for redemption despite fate and circumstance.

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Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of fifteen books, and General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare. He was named the 2016 Holberg Prize Laureate.

Paul Smith lives in Jaipur where he is writing two books, one on Shakespeare and Witness the other on the History of International Soft Power. He has lectured in literature at St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and then pursued doctoral studies in Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. For forty years, from 1983 to 2023, he was an international director for the British Council with postings in Kano and Lagos (Nigeria), Burma, Chile, Bangladesh, New Zealand, India (Mumbai), Egypt, Afghanistan, USA (Washington DC), Indonesia and Germany. His London assignments were as the British Council’s Director Drama and Dance and as Global Director Arts. He has published numerous articles in academic texts.

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