ABSTRACT
The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction: Reading Shakespeare Historically
part |2 pages
Demanding History
chapter |20 pages
Shakespeare after Theory
chapter |14 pages
Are We Being Interdisciplinary Yet?
part |2 pages
The Text in History
chapter |12 pages
The Mechanics of Culture: Editing Shakespeare Today
chapter |22 pages
Shakespeare in Print
part |2 pages
The Text as History
chapter |16 pages
Is There a Class in This (Shakespearean) Text?
chapter |18 pages
Macbeth and the "Name of King"
part |2 pages
Coda: The Closing of the Theaters
