Shakespeare After Theory

by David Scott Kastan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135965105
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David Scott Kastan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Among his publications are Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time, Staging the Renaissance (ed. with Peter Stallybrass), Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Hamlet, and The New History of Early English Drama (ed. with John Cox). He is also a general editor of the Arden Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction; Introduction; Part 2 Demanding History; Chapter 1 Shakespeare after Theory; Chapter 2 Are We Being Interdisciplinary Yet?; Part 3 The Text in History; Chapter 3 The Mechanics of Culture; Chapter 4 Shakespeare in Print; Chapter 5 “Killed with Hard Opinions”; Part 4 The Text as History; Chapter 6 “Proud Majesty Made a Subject”; Chapter 7 “The King hath many marching in his Coats,” or, What did you do in the War, Daddy?; Chapter 8 Is There a Class in This (Shakespearean) Text?; Chapter 9 Macbeth and the “Name of King”; Chapter 10 “The Duke of Milan / And his Brave Son”; Part 5 Coda; Chapter 11 “Publike Sports” and “Publike Calamities”;

Editorial Reviews

"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

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