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Shakespeare After Theory

David Scott Kastan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:29th Jul '99

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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.

"This volume deserves to be placed at the forefront of some of the most promising developments in today's Shakespeare scholarship and criticism." -- Modern Language Quarterly
"Kastan's study provides welcome new direction for Shakespearean study at a time when scholarly discussions have begun to stagnate.this timely study should offer new and stimulating directions for what my well be the next phase of Shakespearean scholarship." -- Sixteenth-Century Journal
"... most readers will be grateful for his salutary insistence on and contributions to historical particularity, as well as his judicious criticism of "totalizing" methods." -- Renaissance Quarterly
"Kastan's ability to frame theoretical issues memorably is, in fact, a distinguishing mark of Shakespeare After Theory." -- Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"Kastan's book demonstrates wide reading in history as well as literature, much of it current and carefully documented. Recommended to upper-division undergraduates through faculty for the clarity of its presentation and the breadth of its scholarship." -- Choice

ISBN: 9780415901130

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 490g

264 pages