Shakespeare After Theory [Hardcover]

The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theoryprovocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us.David Scott Kastanis Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Among his publications are Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time, Staging theRenaissance(ed. with Peter Stallybrass), Critical Essayson Shakespeare's Hamlet, and The New History of EarlyEnglish Drama(ed. with John Cox). He is also a general editor of the Arden Shakespeare.