Library Talks
Library Talks
The New York Public Library
Stephen Greenblatt & Tony Kushner: Adam and Eve in the Teeth of Time
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Nov 28, 2017 at 3:00 am.
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning literary historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright discuss Greenblatt's latest book, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, "a life history of one of the most extraordinary stories ever told." Exploring the power of narrative to travel from myth into reality, Greenblatt and Kushner traced the tale from its biblical origins through its imaginings in the minds of writers and artists from St. Augustine to Albrecht Dürer to John Milton.