Volume 35, Number 5 · March 31, 1988
The New Shakespeare?
By E.A.J. Honigmann
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
by Stephen Greenblatt. (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 4)
University of California Press, 205 pp., $20.00
Exciting new developments in the last few years have changed the face of Shakespeare studies, more suddenly than ever before. Traditional assumptions about Shakespeare's language, ideology, text, etc., have been questioned, often successfully, and good anthologies of this very recent criticism are already available.[1] A new book by Stephen Greenblatt, the author of Renaissance Self-Fashioning and one of the leading figures of the latest Shakespeare revolution, is an important event.
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