ABSTRACT
The business, of course, remains unfinished. However persuasive one tries to be, one knows that speech and writing never close an issue; they always provoke a new stage, or a repetition of an older stage. Every story leaves out something; this thought can be derived, once more, from Macherey. From real-world issues such as the political potential of Shakespeare in our time, through to the reading of Shakespeare’s sonnet 20 and Jonson’s Epicene, other studies are being written at this moment. By way of conclusion I remark a new attempt to develop cultural materialism, and assess once more what it might mean to read as a cultural materialist.
