Beschreibung:
Neema Parvini is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey.
Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism. And yet, it remains notoriously difficult to pin down, define and explain, let alone analyze. Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of new historicism as a development in Shakespeare studies while asking fundamental questions about its status as literary theory and its continued usefulness as a method of approaching Shakespeare's plays.
Follows the evolution of new historicism from its inception up to the present, considering cutting edge developments in historicist practice
Series Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductory Note1 What is 'History'?2 After Tillyard, before Greenblatt3 Power, Containment and Cultural Poetics4 New Historicism in Practice: The Case of Measure for Measure5 New Historicism and Feminism6 The Opponents of New Historicism7 The Legacy of New HistoricismNotesBibliography