Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings

by James L. 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'Rourke demonstrates how this Brechtian model is able to capture the full range of interplays that could take...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415897033
• ISBN13: 9780415897037
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"