After 17 years renaissance self fashioning totally stands up the chapters on wyatt tyndale more truly stellar spenser and shakespeare remained unsurpassed readers may quibble but though whose do have never written and will never write a book anywhere remotely near the excellence of greeblatts. Renaissance self fashioning is a study of sixteenth century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry stephen greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the english renaissance more tyndale wyatt spenser marlowe and . In renaissance self fashioning greenblatt looks at the works of six renaissance writers and examines how each of them used their writings to help establish their public personas the first half of the book focuses on how the writings of more tyndale and wyatt were used as ammunition in the v. Stephen greenblatt began writing renaissance self fashioning with the intention of understanding the role of human autonomy in the construction of identity but found instead that the human subject is the ideological product of the relations of power in a particular society p 256. Stephen greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the english renaissance more tyndale wyatt spenser marlowe and shakespeare and finds that in the