Shakespeare and the Question of Culture: Early Modern Literature and the Cultural Turn

by Douglas Bruster

Book Overview

The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England. One could call this a move from 'text' to 'culture'. Put briefly, earlier critics tended to focus on literary texts, strictly conceived: plays, poems, prose fictions, essays. Since the mid-1980s, however, it has been just as likely for critics to speak of the 'culture' of early modern England, even when they do so in conjunction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312294387
• ISBN13: 9780312294380
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"