Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory

by Neema Parvini

Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism. And yet, it remains notoriously difficult to pin down, define and explain, let alone analyze. Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of new historicism as a development in Shakespeare studies while asking fundamental questions about its status as literary theory and its continued usefulness as a method of approaching Shakespeare's plays.

Genres: Literary Criticism

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 26, 2017

About the author

Neema Parvini is a British academic, writer, and YouTuber. He is currently a senior fellow at the Centre of Heterodox Studies at the University of Buckingham. He is best known for his work on Elite Theory, especially his critique of populism in The Populist Delusion (2022), but is also noted as a literary scholar of Shakespeare.