ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |7 pages
Introduction
part |35 pages
Demanding History
chapter |20 pages
Shakespeare after Theory
chapter |13 pages
Are We Being Interdisciplinary Yet?
part |50 pages
The Text in History
chapter |22 pages
Shakespeare in Print
chapter |14 pages
“Killed with Hard Opinions”
Oldcastie and Falstaff and the Reformed Text of 1 Henry IV
part |91 pages
The Text as History
chapter |16 pages
Is There a Class in This (Shakespearean) Text?
chapter |18 pages
Macbeth and the “Name of King”
part |22 pages
Coda
