New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

by Richard Wilson (Editor), Richard Dutton (Editor)

New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.

249 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

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[Florence Ridley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love reading essay collections like this which serve as little time capsules of a critical era. It was almost nostalgic to read through the strongest essays of the New Historicist/Cultural Materialist movement.

“It is perhaps the fact that New Historicism, broadly defined, remains so central a factor in everyone else's agenda as a catalyst or point of departure which guarantees its continuing importance in Renaissance literary studies (and, increasingly, in the literary studies of other periods) for the forseeable future.” (p.225)

Yep. That sums it up really. In my own reading I can’t get away from the stuff. Idk what to tell you - Raymond Williams never misses.