Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

(The University of Chicago Press) Greene spends 227 pages on five words: blood, invention, language, resistance, and world. Discussing such prominent writers as Shakespeare and Milton in the context of these words, Greene explores how their meanings changed across disciplines, from science to politics. Greene is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Science at Stanford University.