Shakespeare After TheoryRoutledge, 2013 M05 13 - 256 pages The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us. |
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... thought uniquely able to resist such readings, his putative universality rendering them almost insultingly reductive. It was not the nineteenth century that first thought him timeless, imagining him, with Coleridge, “of no age,”2 or ...
... thought uniquely able to resist such readings, his putative universality rendering them almost insultingly reductive. It was not the nineteenth century that first thought him timeless, imagining him, with Coleridge, “of no age,”2 or ...
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... thought uniquely able to resist such readings , his putative universality rendering them almost insultingly reductive . It was not the nineteenth century that first thought him timeless , imagining him , with Coleridge , " of no age ...
... thought uniquely able to resist such readings , his putative universality rendering them almost insultingly reductive . It was not the nineteenth century that first thought him timeless , imagining him , with Coleridge , " of no age ...
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... thought , linguistic rules , literary conventions , social codes , legal restraints , material practices , and commercial conditions of production . Shakespeare has emerged in the English literary tradition virtually as the iconic name ...
... thought , linguistic rules , literary conventions , social codes , legal restraints , material practices , and commercial conditions of production . Shakespeare has emerged in the English literary tradition virtually as the iconic name ...
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... thought of as a contamination of its essence but as the very condition of its being , a historicity that locates creativity within determinate conditions of realization . Rather than seek to escape this full , complicating historicity ...
... thought of as a contamination of its essence but as the very condition of its being , a historicity that locates creativity within determinate conditions of realization . Rather than seek to escape this full , complicating historicity ...
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... thought of as interdisciplinary . It is true that historians have come to see literature as one of the potentially useful archives of their own study and have increasingly come to recognize the inescapable textuality of both the written ...
... thought of as interdisciplinary . It is true that historians have come to see literature as one of the potentially useful archives of their own study and have increasingly come to recognize the inescapable textuality of both the written ...
Contents
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Editing Shakespeare Today | 59 |
Shakespeare in Print | 71 |
Oldcastle and Falstaff | 93 |
7 | 122 |
The King hath many marching in his Coats | 129 |
Macbeth and the Name of King | 165 |
The Closing of the Theaters | 199 |
Index | 258 |
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