First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7 1943) is an American literary critic theorist and scholar. He is also co-founder of the literary-cultural journal Representations which often publiStephen Greenblatts articles by new historicists.