Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings

By James O'Rourke

This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist Shakespeare is not an anachronism. Relying on a Brechtian aesthetic of "na ve surrealism" as the performative model of the early modern, urban, public theater, James O'Rou

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032927828
• ISBN13: 9781032927824
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"